"Access denied because you do not have sufficient access privileges."

Question

That's the error message I get after I try to access my working files, even though I am logged in as administrator. This has just started since I restored my files with Time Machine.
Help!

Answer 1

I just checked my user folder and see that Group Wheel had "Read only" permissions (I used the Apple fix a few days ago for problems with Quicken backups failing, moving files required password, etc).
When I tried the commands in your post:
Last login: Fri May 23 23:05:19 on console
MacBookPro:~ dechamp$ chmod -R -N ~
chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file Commands: Invalid argument
chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file Notification: Invalid argument
I continued with the next commands anyway, just to see what would happen (I'm on a bootable backup)
but I didn't get any feedback from terminal for instructions 3 and 4:
MacBookPro:~ dechamp$ chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/ ~/Desktop ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Library ~/Movies ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Public ~/Sites
MacBookPro:~ dechamp$ chmod +a "`id -un` allow list,addfile,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr, writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directoryinherit" ~/Public/Drop\ Box
MacBookPro:~ dechamp$
sudo chmod -R -N ~ has the same results.
Are the "Invalid Argument" statements to be ignored like the errors that come up about ACL's when fixing permissions are?