Time Machine Problem

I saw your post earlier and while it caught my eye, I have never experienced password issues with Time Machine except to enter the disk password for the Time Capsule I'm using. Passwords during restore? First of all, I never go in that animated movie based "Enter Time Machine" low budget sci fi show looking for my files. I browse to the sparse bundle, right click and pick show contents then browse to the files I want and simply copy them and paste them to whatever destination I have in mind. I should add that this is an "expert mode" way of getting things out of a TM backup and you have to be careful not to change anything in the sparsebundle or TM might quit working correctly.

When a problem seems isolated to one account, it's a good idea to repair disk permissions. Reinstalling an OS is a blunt force trauma way of fixing things. I do it because OS X makes it so easy. But sometimes its killing a fly with a bazooka and other times, like yours, it doesn't really fix anything.

 

Same problem here. I reset the permissions on my entire home folder, and still, when I select a folder in Time Machine and hit restore, it just restores the folder and no contents. I can SEE the files in the folder in time machine, but it won't restore them. I guess it's trying to keep them safe from me or something.

 

Well, I got it to restore the folder by going into the console and copying it with cp, so there's not permissions problem there. Something must be broken in Time Machine.

Scary.