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The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges!

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guapost

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Nov 17, 2009
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Hi.

I've done a complete re-installation af Snow Leopard.

When trying to restore the library/mail folder via Time Machine i'm told: "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for "mail'" I seems to me that i have both privileges to read and write in the folder. I can't place the backed up files in a different folder either?

I have no problems restoring my pictures and the likes from time machine?

Hope that somebody can help me?

Best regards Peter
 
You can't restore individual files from a time machine backup, only a full system restore. You have to do it again, this time making copies of each folder you want to transfer over, separate from the time machine backup. Then drag them onto your new system one by one. I could never access photos, or music, or anything else from Time Machine, which is why I stopped using it.

This has been my experience. For the OP's sake I hope I'm wrong
 
guapost said:
The forum you link to state that you can change the permissions?
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That link was to show that other have had the same trouble, unfortunately.

I've never been able to change the permissions on the TM backup, though it's worth a try. Right-click the TM drive and go to 'get info.' You'll be able to try in there, but again it didn't work for me.

Time Machine is designed for those who never want to worry about migrating files, etc., hence the complete lack of options and usefulness for anything else.
It's misleading.
 
A "much better" solution is using the terminal's cp (yes, short for 'copy'). Open time machine, copy the folder / file location under CMD+I and use something like this, for instance:

Code: 
cp -R /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/MK\ MBP/2009-09-29-141056/Macintosh\ HD/Users/yourself/Documents "/Users/yourself/Documents"

Amazing how, in my case, I didn't even need to use sudo and Time Machine still would bring me the "permission" bull.
 
cawas said:
A "much better" solution is using the terminal's cp (yes, short for 'copy'). Open time machine, copy the folder / file location under CMD+I and use something like this, for instance:

Code: 
cp -R /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/MK\ MBP/2009-09-29-141056/Macintosh\ HD/Users/yourself/Documents "/Users/yourself/Documents"

Amazing how, in my case, I didn't even need to use sudo and Time Machine still would bring me the "permission" bull.
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Thanks a ton cawas, This absolutely did the trick for me. It was a single app rather than the entire documents directory, but it worked great in the terminal. I had no idea you could do a cmd-i in time machine. =)
 
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