HT201250 My time machine back has been working perfectly well until yesterday when it failed. The error message I get is Files can't be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be read-only. How do I fix it?

My time machine back has been working perfectly well until yesterday when it failed. The error message I get is Files can’t be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be read-only. How do I fix it?

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    Hello,
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    See Pondini's TM FAQs, for starters.

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