[X4U] Unable to open/assign permissions to files

[Edie]

at 10:00 PM -0500 8/24/07, Michael Elliott wrote:
>I asked a friend to upload some .avi files (The Lost Room...gotta love that miniseries) to a drop box via afp filesharing.  He dropped the files into the drop box on an account I only use for troubleshooting issues.  I can't open the .avi files or convert them because of permission issues.  I can't even copy them to another drive.
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>When I do a Get Info on the files, the permissions are listed as You Have: No Access.  Owner: Nobody. Access: Read & Write.  Group: Blank. All of the options are greyed out.  I can't even get figure out a way to enter my administrator password to change permissions.
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>This is the first time I've ever run into this situation.  Any suggestions?
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>Thanks!

Just a thought, Mike.

Can you access permissions on the folder they're in? Then change it to belong to you and apply the new permissions to the contents?

~Edie