[dmegatool]

Just curious about permissions... Did you try the terminal way ? Just wondering if the GUI method could actually work better.

[psmith2.0]

Honestly, I never touched Terminal. I just don't feel comfortable with that and if I did something wrong...

[dmegatool]

Can be scary indeed... but with drag and drop it's harder to mess with folder names and all. Anyway glad you could fix it with a good ol' mouse

Hi it sounds like this is exactly what I am experiencing

I mounted the sparsebuindle of my backup

I then found the latest backup version

I copied that user folder over to my computers drive

I started iPhoto holding the option key and selected the other library and it works so far

hope this helps

I got shafted by time machine because I had not backed the system portion of my drive due to space constraints, so it wouldn't let me do a full restore after my drive toasted and I reloaded the OS

[alcimedes]

Welcome, and glad that it helped!

-scates, hope you don't mind but I edited your post to include the solution in a quick/easy to find manner in case other people stumble across this thread. Having been on a recent witch hunt for rare info, it's annoying to try and find the eventual solution after 10 failed recommendations.

[psmith2.0]

Not at all. That'll be much better help to people than wading through 20 posts of me bitching and crying.