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dmrowley

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Aug 4, 2010
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Dortches, NC
Hi,
I did a clean install of Lion today, and then restored my home folder from my Time Machine backup. I have a huge problem though, as all of my important folders are "locked", and have a little red "no entry" icon on the bottom right corner, like this:

Pictures.jpg

I cannot access any of my photos, music, anything... and I am not well versed in UNIX filesystems. Can anyone help me get these files back? I do have a full bootable backup of my old Snow Leopard system, but it took 5 hours to restore the 650 Gigs of files.

Any help is appreciated.

Updated...
Nevermind, I fixed it by going into the Get Info, and using the "apply to enclosed items" option.
 
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