Hello,
I recently switched from Leopard to Snow Leopard. I already had a year or so of backups on an external hard-drive, done with Time Machine. To change OS, I did a new backup, then the guys at the apple store erased my computer and installed Snow. I migrated my old computer with the migration assistant without any problems.
I am now trying to go dig into my old backups for some files, and I have a serious problem. Time Machine does recognize my backup files when I connect the external hard-drive, and I can «enter time machine» and see all the copies stacked. However, if I select one, half the files have a red dot on them (Documents, Desktop, etc) and if I double click on one of them, I receive this error message: Impossible to open the file «Desktop» because you do not have the autorisation required to view it's content. (This is actually translated from the french message, so it may not be phrased exactly like the actual english error message.)
Are all my files lost?
Please help...
I recently switched from Leopard to Snow Leopard. I already had a year or so of backups on an external hard-drive, done with Time Machine. To change OS, I did a new backup, then the guys at the apple store erased my computer and installed Snow. I migrated my old computer with the migration assistant without any problems.
I am now trying to go dig into my old backups for some files, and I have a serious problem. Time Machine does recognize my backup files when I connect the external hard-drive, and I can «enter time machine» and see all the copies stacked. However, if I select one, half the files have a red dot on them (Documents, Desktop, etc) and if I double click on one of them, I receive this error message: Impossible to open the file «Desktop» because you do not have the autorisation required to view it's content. (This is actually translated from the french message, so it may not be phrased exactly like the actual english error message.)
Are all my files lost?
Please help...