I've looked on the internet for about 3-4 days now and I have not found anything helpful. I've encountered maybe about 2-3 people that had the same problem I'm having, but they just reformatted their drive. I don't want to do that, so here's what happened:
I got an error from trying to start my Time Machine backups again after a few days, it was giving me a "You do not have Access Privileges to save..." error. So in a fit of frustration, I moved the backups.backupdb folder into the Trash.
I know that's not the proper way to delete backups.backupdb files, and I know that the trash files are stored on the mounted drive as a hidden .Trash folder.
I found out that the 10.5.6 update messed up so other peoples Time Machine functions, so I found a solution to that by using a script in Terminal. I thought I was saved until I tried moving the backups.backupdb files back onto the drive.
It took hours to "preparing to copy" and ended up being 8 Million + items and 2.02 TB of information. Even though it says 154.9GB when I got information from the mounted drive that contained those files.
I've located the .Trash folder, i've changed the name and pulled the files out, so they no longer go to the trash can when I mount the drive, but when I try to transfer the files back to the backups.backupdb folder, it still prepares to copy 2.02 TB worth of data.
So...
Question 1: Is it possible to get the backups.backupdb files out of the trash as the 154.9GB instead of the 2.02 TB? Maybe a Terminal Script or something can trick it into thinking it never went to the trash?
Question 2: Why does it say 154.9GB under the mounted drive info but it prepares to copy 2.02 TB worth of data? Is it because Time Machine uses some sort of compression? and if so, why doesn't it just transfer files back just like it would when it backups? Why doesn't it recognize it as previously backed up data?
Any tips, input, information... anything would be helpful at this point.
Or... Am I just completely screwed and may have to just reformat?
Thanks in advanced!
I got an error from trying to start my Time Machine backups again after a few days, it was giving me a "You do not have Access Privileges to save..." error. So in a fit of frustration, I moved the backups.backupdb folder into the Trash.
I know that's not the proper way to delete backups.backupdb files, and I know that the trash files are stored on the mounted drive as a hidden .Trash folder.
I found out that the 10.5.6 update messed up so other peoples Time Machine functions, so I found a solution to that by using a script in Terminal. I thought I was saved until I tried moving the backups.backupdb files back onto the drive.
It took hours to "preparing to copy" and ended up being 8 Million + items and 2.02 TB of information. Even though it says 154.9GB when I got information from the mounted drive that contained those files.
I've located the .Trash folder, i've changed the name and pulled the files out, so they no longer go to the trash can when I mount the drive, but when I try to transfer the files back to the backups.backupdb folder, it still prepares to copy 2.02 TB worth of data.
So...
Question 1: Is it possible to get the backups.backupdb files out of the trash as the 154.9GB instead of the 2.02 TB? Maybe a Terminal Script or something can trick it into thinking it never went to the trash?
Question 2: Why does it say 154.9GB under the mounted drive info but it prepares to copy 2.02 TB worth of data? Is it because Time Machine uses some sort of compression? and if so, why doesn't it just transfer files back just like it would when it backups? Why doesn't it recognize it as previously backed up data?
Any tips, input, information... anything would be helpful at this point.
Or... Am I just completely screwed and may have to just reformat?
Thanks in advanced!