Help! Time Machine is telling me I don't have permission to access backup
I recently did a clean SL install to try and correct some issues I am having with Aperture. The install did not correct the problem, and I now have a library of 70,000+ images (years worth of edits, etc..) that I cannot run in Aperture 3. Today I tried to access a copy of that library via time machine, based on the instructions in the FAQ above: I opened a finder window, went to "enter time machine" and tried to restore the library from February 8th (the day before I upgraded the library to AP3) to my newly installed snow leopard. I am getting the following error message:
The operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access "Aperture Library".
Please help. I checked the troubleshooting section, but did not find any helpful info pertaining to this particular issue.
some additional info about the clean install, I did not Migrate any data over from a Time Machine, I started fresh. Perhaps this could be my issue. Do I need to Migrate over the User account in order to have access to my old data?
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I'm having trouble restoring files from Time Machine to my desktop. Specifically, i accidentally deleted an imovie project i was working on and turned to Time Machine to get it back. Unfortunately when i click restore i get the message "the operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access..."
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What to do if Time Machine reports you don't have permission
This was posted in the Apple Discussions by V.K. I have only modified it slightly to be more generic.
The problem seems to be that 10.5.6 changes permissions on a file so that even the root user doesn't have write peivileges. I have no idea why they did this. The workaround suggested in [an]other post will probably work, too, but i did something less drastic. Instead of deleting the file I changed permissions on it, and it worked just fine. An added benefit is that the permission change seems to stick, so you don't have to delete the file every time you change a drive.
[Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt [enter] the following command:
sudo chmod 644 /volumes/"TM drive name"/.xxxxxxxxxxxx
The name of the file .xxxxxxxxxxxx is based on the MAC address of your computer and will be different for every computer. Put the name of the TM drive in the above and keep the quotes.
You'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see) which is normal.
This was edited by Kappy just for cleanup.
Enable Finder to Show Invisible Files and Folders
Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following command line then press RETURN.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
To turn off the display of invisible files and folders enter or paste the following command line and press RETURN.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
Alternatively you can use one of the numerous third-party utilities such as TinkerTool or ShowHideInvisibleFiles - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Also, see User Tips for Time Machine for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine. -
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It's a known problem using Time Machine. Read > http://pondini.org/TM/E9.html -
Hi
I am feeling VERY desperate!
After losing an external drive [dont ask....] - I got another one : 2TB WD formatted properly [ OS extended journalled for mac ] ready for action to move my thousands of files and images and ppts in hundreds of folders across from the laptop to this drive because I travel a bit with the laptop and this is too risky not to back up at home.
But this message came up after starting on moving folders across [** and not straight away, sometimes after moving a folder when 4 of 6 gb of files across then the message comes up = very frustrating]:
"The operation can’t be completed because you don't have permission to access some of the items."
I am dragging mixed sometimes large complex folders to this os extended journalled external drive from my mac book pro OS 10.6.8 - it would take decades to move items one by one or even folder by folder and really confusing.
I have dragged-copied various small folders and files across successfully, but it is only working 50:50 and I can't leave machine with the idea of things copying eg: overnight - it just won't work....
I have been browsing google and find some people describing in CODE how they overcome this 'message' .... but I [and I guess some other viewers of this in future & also in desperation] would need instructions for beginners.... to try this type of thing. I don't know any code.
How can this be happening - I feel ANGRY at APPLE !!!! for not posting easy fix instructions yet re; this, or better still updating software so it doesn't happen [ that I can find at least !!! ] . There seem to be hundreds of people stuck with this stupid message and inability to back up their projects etc.
Can anyone help ?
Many thanks
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15 August 2011hi Samberl
thanks a lot for the fast reply.
I was dragging folders from main folders on the laptop-desktop onto the external drive icon - to copy them across....
Your suggestion sounds very promising - I didn't know about 'cloning'.
Yes the idea is to backup the laptop - I thought I would just move it all now, new - and then keep saving/dragging physically across to the new drive myself each day or two...
Would this be the sizeof the internal hard drive = c.500 gb ? = under the HD icon on desktop is written :
" 499.76gb , 311.5 gb free "
I can erase and start agin on the new external drive - so this plan is to make two partititions, rather than the one at present, and make one of them 500 gb ?
I have found CCC [carbon copy cloner] googling - looks good.
When CCC site says it backs up the hard drive - would this mean all my files [over 100 gb] that are mostly in folders on the desktop, plus the others in itunes, iphotos etc found in the HD icon, would all copy across successfully [wherever they are in the computer ] ?
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It would be great and amazing if this 'lack of permission' message doesn't show up in the process of doing this ccc transfer - hopeful!
Julie -
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You don't have permission to access /cwhp/LiaisonServlet ..
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I don't know what happened, but this morning, after login, my CSM 3.01 windows 2003 server gives me this error:
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anybody know?
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"You don't have permission to access"
I am having problems with Web Sharing on my primary user account.
In the Setting>Sharing>Web Sharing panel it shows my computer address and the address for my personal website.
When I click on the computer's address, I get a page that says "It Works!" but when I click the personal website address, I get "You don't have permission to access..."
I created a test account and everything works fine there. I repaired permissions and ran the 10.6.4 combo update again and neither helped.
Any suggestions on what else to look at? I'm baffled.j.v. wrote:
Now try doing a chmod -vv 755 Sites. See whether that fixes you.
This did not fix the problem
If doing that chmod doesn't fix it, do a ls -dle@ Sites since that folder is showing some additional extended attributes, so I can see what they are.
Results of ls -dle@ Sites
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 j staff 204 Aug 13 17:05 Sites
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
I presume your "Graphics" folder that is in your "Sites" folder is something that you put in there?
Yes, some time ago, don't remember why and I'm not using the contents so I will probably delete it.
If you do those things, then hopefully that will fix you up. If you are still having problems, just like you first did, do a
ls -Rle@ Sites > Desktop/modperms.txt
so you can easily show other helpers here what I've done to you
Done
PS - in your test account that you created, since it works, the files' and folders' permissions there are exactly like what your files' and folders' permissions in your account should look like. So if you were to do a
ls -Rle@ ../testAcctShortUserName/Sites
and a
ls -Rle@ Sites
that will give you a recursive listing, showing permissions, owner/group, access control lists, and extended attributes, of both Sites' folders for you to compare.
Results
[jay-hs-macbook:~] j% ls -Rle@ ../websharetest/Sites
total 1184
-rw-r--r--@ 1 websharetest staff 302232 Aug 12 19:18 Pictures alias
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
com.apple.ResourceFork 301907
drwxr-xr-x 3 websharetest staff 102 Aug 12 00:49 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 websharetest staff 2642 Aug 12 00:49 index.html
../websharetest/Sites/images:
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 websharetest staff 16624 Aug 12 00:49 gradient.jpg
[jay-hs-macbook:~] j% ls -Rle@ Sites
total 8
drwxr-x--- 8 j staff 272 Feb 18 2003 Graphics
drwxr-xr-x 3 j staff 102 Aug 12 00:49 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 j staff 2642 Aug 12 00:49 index.html
Sites/images:
total 40
-rw-r--r-- 1 j staff 16624 Aug 12 00:49 gradient.jpg
(Note: I removed the results for the Graphics folder since I plan to delete it)
It seems that the critical folders have the same permissions. Where else should I look?
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I can not delete an email I get a message218130.emlx” couldn’t be copied because you don’t have permission to access “Messages”
Actually, the Finder solution did not work for me, but here's what did:
Quit Mail (for safety's sake).
Open Terminal (it's in Utilities folder usually, but since I updated to ML it's in a folder called Other for some reason)
Once Terminal is open, you'll want to login as ROOT. You do this as follows:
Type
sudo -i
Then hit Enter/Return. You'll be promoted for your system password. Hopefully you'll remember it. Enter your password then hit Enter/Return.
You'll then be at what's known as a root prompt.
At this point BE VERY CAREFUL. You have the ability at this point to completely destroy your machine beyond repair. Only type what I list below:
To find the folder that contains the email message you'll need to type the following:
find . -name "218130.emlx"
Hit Enter/Return
This will take a minute or two but what should appear in the list of other items that appear is something along the lines of the following (it won't be exactly this but will look LIKE this) I've replaced some personally identifying info:
./Users/yourname/Library/Mail/V2/POP-youremailaddress@yourmailserver/INBOX.mbox/ 0355DF0D-5E99-4798-B79E-48D71E68AF34/Data/3/2/Messages/23219.emlx
This line describes the location of the offending email. You know what to put yourself into this directory:
cd /Users/yourname/Library/Mail/V2/POP-youremailaddress@yourmailserver/INBOX.mbox/0 355DF0D-5E99-4798-B79E-48D71E68AF34/Data/3/2/Messages/
Hit Enter/Return
Notice, I left of the name of the actual email address. You'll need to be sure you type the location EXACTLY or this won't work. You want to be in the Messages folder. You'll know you're there because your Terminal prompt will look something like this:
Your Name - iMac:Messages
Then just to be sure you're in the right place, type
ls
Hit Enter/Return
You should then see something like this:
iMac:Messages root# ls
23013.emlx 23096.emlx 23100.emlx 23156.emlx 23210.emlx 23213.emlx 218130.emlx
You'll see the offending message. Now, you delete ONLY this message. Type:
rm -f 218130.emlx
That's RM at the start above. You'll need to type it in lower case. Be sure that's all you type.
Hit Enter/Return
You'll should be disappointed at the results because it will look like nothing happened. You can hit ls and Enter/Return one more time and the offending file should be gone.
EXIT TERMINAL. DO NOT TYPE ANYTHING ELSE. DO NOT "POKE AROUND". THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO EXPLORE. SERIOUS SYSTEM DAMAGE CAN BE CAUSED FROM HERE. EXIT TERMINAL NOW.
Now re-open Mail - the message will still appear to be in there, but magically, you can delete it. you can also delete it from your Trash for good measure. -
File Vault: You don't have permission to access /~anybody/ on this server.
I tried it on several machines without success:
403 Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~anybody/ on this server.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at localhost.local Port 80
I can reach the main site on the computer but not the user site if user was setup with File Fault.
I did control permissions and tried this issue on other machines with clean installed 10.4.x
:::[Wed Apr 4 13:19:17 2007] [error] [client 192.168.0.10] (13)Permission denied: access to /~anybody/ failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path:::
NO SOLUTION. IS THIS A BUG?If I log in to a FileVault user's account, change the group of that user's home folder to "www" and allow group "---x" permissions, it is possible, from another account, to access "http://127.0.0.1/~filevaultuser". I'm not in a situation where I can test access from a different machine, and my system is PPC, not Intel, but I don't think that should matter. I'm not sure why it is not working for you.
Note that for it to work requires that the user is logged in (otherwise, because of how FileVault works, the "~/Sites" folder doesn't exist), and the permissions along the path "/Users/filevaultuser/Sites" have to allow "www" access. If the user is not logged in, access may fail for a couple of reasons. First, because the "Shared" folder doesn't exist - the home folder is encrypted - leading to a 404 error. Second, the permissions of "/Users/filevaultuser" may be "drwx------" by default (access only for the owner), leading to a permissions error.
It might help to recall that when a FileVault user's home folder is stored in an encrypted disk image "/Users/filevaultuser/filevaultuser.sparseimage", and when they log in, "/Users/filevaultuser" is moved to "/Users/.filevaultuser", and "/Users/.filevaultuser/filevaultuser.sparseimage" is mounted at "/Users/filevaultuser". I.e. the path "/Users/filevaultuser" refers to two different folders depending on whether or not the user is logged in.
..."it writes that if I'm looged in as the user which is using File Vault it should work - but it doesn't."...
I think that statement refers to 10.3 - lower in the article, it says that for Tiger, the "Public" folder won't be visible after logging in. It could also be referring to some changes made to personal file sharing that were made between 10.3 and 10.4, rather than a filevault specific issue.
Just to reiterate, I don't think enabling web sharing for a user that needs the security of FileVault is really a good idea. It might be better to give that user a second non-FileVault account, where they can place their materials. That way, the homepage would be available even if they are logged out. -
403 forbidden you don't have permission to access / on this server Error
I just deployed my server 2012 & exchange 2013. Serv#1 domain name is xyz.com. and Serv#2 exchange server: mail.xyz.com. My server is also hosting DHCP Server. After installing the servers, every time when i go to
my website - www.xyz.com (it is hosting by third party Webmaster) it give me error message: 403 forbidden you don't have permission to access / on this server Error. What can I do to result this problem.
Thank you for your help.
Cnet3383Jim,
Thank you very much for responding on my question. My website is working fine. It only has problem with the segment of network within server 2012. And also, I found out that as soon as I stop the DNS server then i can access my website
without any problem. I am very sure the problem in the setting of my DNS Server. I have all A records are pointing out to internal private ip to Server 2012, Exchange Server, and also external ip to exchange server, and website. Here
is my DNS Mgr setting:
(Same as parent folder) Start of Authority (SOA) (204),serv.xxx.com,hostmaster.xxx.com Static
(Same as parent folder) Name Server Serv.XXX.com
Static (Server 2012 Name)
(Same as parent folder)
Host (A)
173.xxx.xxx.19 Static (Public IP)
(Same as parent folder) Host(A)
10.1.8.1 Static (Private IP)
(Same as parent folder) Host(A)
98.xxx.xxx.83 Static (My website public IP)
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serv
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