HT201250 time machine - no Permission  to restore

HI,
I HAD A POWER FAILURE AND I HAD TO RESTART MY IMAC AND THEN I NOTICE THAT
THE CABINET FOR NEAT WORKS WAS MISSING. SO I WENT INTO TIME MACHINE AND
TRIED TO RESTORE, BUT INSTEAD I GOT THIS MESSAGE: " The operation can’t be
completed because you don’t have permission to access “Neat Library
2012.nrmlib”. THERE IS NO PASSWORD NEEDED AND I CAN RESTORE OTHER FILES.
THIS NEAT WORKS CABINET (LIBRARY) HAS 300 PLUS MEGABITS OF INFO, SO HOW DO
I GET IT BACK?
I TALK TO NEAT WORKS PEOPLE AND TRIED, THEY SAID THE PROBLEM IS TIME
MACHINE. SO WHAT IS ONE TO DO?
JIM SCOTT
[email protected]

It sounds like it's not finding any destination drive(s), as that's the next selection (see #14 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum).
Your backups are most likely fine; if it showed you a list, then they're there (and the "magic" of TM is, every backup is, in effect, a full one, even if many old ones have been deleted).
Select Utilities from the menubar again, then +Disk Utility+ and be sure the new drive appears and is set up properly. On the first line (with the name and size) it must have the GUID *Partition Map Scheme* for an Intel Mac; or the +Apple Partition Map+ for a PPC Mac.
On the second line, indented, it should have the +Mac OS Extended (Journaled)+ Format.

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