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Permissions on my Hard Drive

Jan 7, 2011 11:40PM PST

I have a 2TB external hard drive, I made the mistake of changing the permissions on the drive for the "everyone account" to no access. I plug it in to my MacBook, it recognizes it, but I cannot read the files on it.

Does anyone know how to change the permission back to read/write?


Mac Book Pro 10.5.8
2.5Ghz
4 GB
WD 2TB external HD

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