Two Fridays ago I was messing with some stuff, redoing some Flickr things (I did something stupid/clumsy and broke a bunch of links...long story). Anyway, I restored some things, then went out of town. Got home (this has been about 10 days and I just haven't had the heart or patience to fool with it.
In a nutshell, I'm trying to get the iPhoto library (14.7GB) from Wednesday or Thursday (March 7 or 8) BACK to present day.
When I go back in Time Machine, find that library file (14.7GB, the little palm tree photos, etc.) and click "restore", it brings it to "today", but then tells me I don't have permission to access "iPhoto library".
I've got nearly a thousand pics I've taken in the past 18-20 months of my friend, her son, our travels, etc. They're somewhere on my Time Machine drive, I see the 14.7GB iPhoto library file and I know it's from the day before I loused everything up.
How do I get this back and have my current library photo back to its ~16GB/2,500-photo self (instead of this sad, truncated one I'm looking at now).
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Originally Posted by arteggio
It seems like everything has been suggested, but you might also try going to TM disk > ~/Photos > Get Info > unlock, add your own user account, and in the little menu choose 'apply to all items' and let it finish so that your account definitely has access to everything in there.
If that doesn't work, maybe apply your permissions to the whole backup folder, or the whole disk. I don't think any harm can come from this.
If that still doesn't work, have you tried copying a new user account? It's usually one of the first things mentioned but I didn't see it this time.  Try applying that account to the library's/folder's/disk's permissions. |
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