Alright, here’s the story behind my idiocy: bottom line is that I was trying to get root dir accessible from platform UIs that are seen as ‘guests’ instead of /Public/ so I decided to SSH into my MBL (3tb) and cd / followed by CHMOD -R 777 * Now pretty much everything is defunct… fpkmgr is installe…

Based on my experience, screwing with permissions on a global scale = trouble. I mean not only in UNIXes, but also Windows… The only thing you’ll be able to do is (in a nutshell): open your MBL and connect the drive via a SATA cable (internal or USB, doesn’t matter). See this guide ( http://foru…

So I ran CHMOD -R 777 * as root from / yolo

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Shabuboy July 6, 2013, 1:00am 3

Read up to step two… Might help…

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/GUIDE-How-to-unbrick-a-totally-dead-MBL/td-p/435724

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So I ran CHMOD -R 777 * as root from / yolo

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