Ownership and permissions

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ok so in trying to set ownership and permissions for a non Administrative account on both of my external drives, i somehow have locked both accounts from even mounting it. i cant quite remeber exactly what i set it too (didnt think i would have to) but reguardless i cant see the drives to even change it back. any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
 
Finally got it, thanks to a Genius. i was able to use the terminal to change the ownership and permission settings.

Launch the "Terminal" application (under /Applications/Utilities) and copy & paste the following commands, where "disk 1" is the name of the drive. then press Return.

sudo chmod -R u+X "/Volumes/Disk 1"
ls -l /Volumes
echo "done"

Then restart your Mac and see if the disks mount properly
 
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