System really messed up with all folders locked after installing Mavericks
Wow, I love Mac, but this last OS install of Mavericks has sent me for a loop, not only did it erase all of my files except for applications, it turned my computer into a fresh off the shelf Mac and I lost most everything in settings in all applications. I have been working over the past month now to restore a sense of order but things will never be the same. All I did was go to the app store and choose install, this has never happened to me in the past. Okay, I'll quit whining about that and get to my question: Can I easily fix the fact that all of my folders are now locked both on my computer and on my external hard drives. I'm blaming the Mavericks install for all of this as I've never had this problem before installing Mavericks, not in my history with using Macs since the mid 1980's.
When I want to save a file from within an app, say InDesign, or Photoshop, I get an error that the folder is read only. then I have to save my file to the desktop and go to the finder level, find the folder and get info and with my password make the change to make it unlocked.
Foo, this is aggrivating, I know I can't go backward and fix anything that might have been done wrong, but I need to know if there is a way where I can unlock everything like it used to be without having to go through thousands of folders one-by-one doing this unlocing with password proceedure.
Whew,
TIA,
Ken