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Dale Cooper

macrumors regular
Original poster
Hi,
I've somehow completely messed up the permissions on my external hd (can read from it, but not write (make directories, update Aperture vault) unless I log in as root in Terminal. I've tried sudo chmod -R 777 /Volumes/xxx, chown -R "user" /Volumes/xxx etc, but I only get "operation not permitted". A ls- l in terminal for the drive gives
drwxr-xrwx+ 17 "user" wheel 646 Sep 8 18:26 xxx

Any help is very much appreciated!!!!!!!
 
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