Re: Time Machine backups and permissions

2015-12-21 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
That sounds very dodgy. Time Machine, as you noted, records ownerships and permissions in the filesystem, so at the very least you now have a damaged file history, and possibly have a damaged current backup where filesystem changes you made have not been accounted for. Erase the backup target,

Time Machine backups and permissions

2015-12-21 Thread Grant
Hi all, The other day I discovered that I had lost permission to read the directory containing my Time Machine backups. I am not sure why as I am not aware of having done anything unusual that would have corrupted the permissions. I ran first aid on my hard drive, but this did not resolve the i