Can't restore SPECIFIC files

Here's my issue: I cannot use Time Machine to restore specific Pages documents that are backed up to an external drive.
The current versions aren't corrupted and open just find. But I need the old versions.
Each time I attempt a restore I get "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access “DOCNAME”. Then a "copy" of the document in question appears where it's supposed to. But this file is devoid of data and will not open in Pages. This happens no matter how far back in Time Machine I go.
Similar Pages documents can be restored, even ones from the same folder. It seems the files that can't be restored are the ones I edited last night.
Please help. I'm losing sleep over this.
Message was edited by: Germancity

Germancity wrote:
The files are located within a folder on my Desktop. So yes, in my home directory.
The Desktop Folder has these permissions:
Germancity (Me) Read & Write
Everyone No Access
these are correct.
The folder containing the files in question has:
admin Read & Write
Germancity (Me) Read & Write
Everyone Read Only
these are wrong. you should not have such permissions on anything in your home directory even if you are an admin user. your default group is staff and that's what be listed there. did you change permissions on that folder yourself?
make a new Pages file. what are the permissions on that?
I can quicklook all the trouble files in TM.
I'll admit I tried the drag & drop before posting this thread. I receive the same error message. The files can be quicklooked from there. I can even open them. But they cannot be moved or restored.
ok, I really don't understand what's happening but try the following. select one of those weird files in the TM disk in finder.
then type the following in terminal
sudo ditto --noacl
do not press enter yet. drag the file in question to the terminal window. then press space. then type ~/Desktop. the result should look like this
sudo ditto --noacl /path/to/file ~/Desktop
note the spaces before and after the path to the file. then press enter in terminal. you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal. the command is supposed to copy the file to the desktop. see if it works.
I'm running a repair on my TM drive again just in case I missed some message in Disk Utility.
Thanks for the continued assistance.

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