Disk Permissions Catastrophe

[Denarius]

I had tried something similar to those commands. I doubt they would have worked as I could never mount anything in the first place.

I fixed it though I booted into target disk mode and copied over some files like my iPhoto Library and such. Then I erased the drive and formatted it and it seems to be good as new now I'm hoping when I copy my old files over that I don't get more permission problems. I doubt it though, but I'll run repair permissions just to be safe and if I still do I'll just start over. It's just my iTunes and iPhoto libraries I don't feel like rebuilding but if I must I must.

Thanks for everyone's help!!

Funny how surgery is usually the easiest way.

Repair permissions only actually does stuff to files that were installed by an installer program and that have an associated bom file, so user documents and the like are left completely untouched by repair permissions.

Happily, the basic posix permissions for user folders are dead easy to set. Everything in it should be owned by you with the group staff.

Your main user folder should be set to 700 recursively. Within that Public and Sites should be set to 755 recursively. It's just everything outside the user folder that's incomprehensible, but I guess you've already figured that out!