Brett, you are on the correct path and yes ivanian, further information was needed; Since the folders were copied to an existing directory there were some folders where the permissions did not apply correctly and had the permissions drwxrwS--- also read the following
unix.stackexchange.com/questions/118853/… and superuser.com/questions/509114/…
the command below applied the correct permissions.
sudo find /correct/folder/path -type d -exec chmod g+x "{}" \;
