Help with Back Up..Locked Folder "Fetching" !!??

I back up (copied) my Home Folder over to an external drive. It took about 2-3 hours since I had about 10,000 photos plus some music on my MBP.
Once finished, I was easily able to move my music back to my MBP, but my photos folder (on the external) says The folder “Pictures” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents. It also says there are zero bites in folder, but I think that's because it's not "readable" to me??
When I tried to fix the permissions to "read and write" I noticed my user info wasn't there...it just says "fetching".
I'm a little freaked out now thinking my photos are gone. I had also used a cloud based backup service (Backblaze) and they gave me some wonky instructions on how to transfer my license over to my new user and now it appears that EVERYTHING is gone from that file. My only hope is this external file and being able to get into that folder.
Help! Please...

Try go to "Get Info" in finder.
Then in the buttom you will see Sharing & Permissions.
Unlock, change privilages for the name "Fetching" and click "Apply to enclosed items"
I hope that helps.
Check also this post
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17461637#17461637

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