Re: Time Machine and permissions

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Time Machine and permissions
Date	2015-09-30 01:32 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<d70sdgFka5lU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<isw-806F27.12041729092015@news-roam.garlic.com>

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On 2015-09-29, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
> I just tried to do a TM restore of a folder full of files. Failed 
> because "You do not have permission ..."
>
> I opened the TM drive by double-clicking on it, navigated to the proper 
> place, did a "Get Info" on the folder -- changed permissions with "Apply 
> to enclosed items" even though they already looked OK, but that didn't 
> help. I even went one folder up and did it again, since I've run into 
> that "enclosing folder" problem before. Still didn't work.
>
> I tried just dragging a copy of the folder off the TM drive, but that 
> failed in the same way.
>
> It's my backup, and it was made on the same Mac, so what's going on?
>
> Is there a work-around so I can access those files?

Check the ownership and permissions of the *destination* directory, and
ensure your OS X user account has permission to write there.

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Time Machine and permissions isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-09-29 12:04 -0700
  Re: Time Machine and permissions Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-09-29 16:19 -0400
    Re: Time Machine and permissions isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-09-29 21:19 -0700
  Re: Time Machine and permissions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-30 01:32 +0000
    Re: Time Machine and permissions isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-09-29 21:18 -0700
      Re: Time Machine and permissions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-30 16:39 +0000
  Re: Time Machine and permissions Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-09-30 05:43 +0200
    Re: Time Machine and permissions isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-09-29 21:12 -0700

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