Permission to see contents

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I have a My Book Essential which I had on my old IMac which crashed. Now I’m trying to view folders on my Mac Book Pro and I get a message that I don’t have permission to view content . How can I remedy this ?

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Hello,

Take a look at this link. Hope it helps

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18894?locale=en_US