My Bad Experience with Time Machine

Question

First, I would like to start by saying that I am not an advanced Mac user. I just so happened to stumble upon the solution using google. (The best form of tech support).
The short version of this is if you are restoring from Time Machine DO NOT Drag-and-Drop, use the Time Machine interface and if you are having Access Control List problems see the command at the bottom to clear them out, and so that the Mac will rebuild the ACL from each file.
Okay, I was running Leopard, and it started to act funny, random freezes, kernel panics, programs locking up. I (coming from the windows world) thought that a program had modified a critical system file (as I was running a few programs in beta state). So the then pulled out the Leopard install disc, and because I had all of my files backed up using Time Machine I didn’t worry about things too much. I did an erase and install and it said that “the package ‘essentials’ could not be verified”. I restarted and tried to install again, thinking that it was just a fluke. I then continued to try again, I tried several more times then I opened up Google (on a friends computer), and saw an Apple article that it could be bad RAM. I opened up my MacBook Pro and put the RAM that it shipped with in, and removed the aftermarket RAM. I tried the Leopard install again and it went through, everything ran successfully. I thought that I was out of the woods. I plugged my Time Machine volume back in, and because I remember Steve talking about how it was just a directory, I could copy the files back. That was mistake number 1. So I started copying files back (drag and drop) in the Finder. Okay I got everything back to my internal hard-drive I deleted the back-ups from the previous install on the drive (the Time Machine folders).
From this point on I entered what I would like to call Access Control List ****. I noticed that I was having to enter my password just to rename or modify the tags (in the case of an MP3). I didn’t know what was going on. So I first started looking at file permissions on Google, and I even downloaded two different program to try to reset file permissions on each individual file. What I came to find out later is that the file permissions were being reset but there was a custom file permission that (I assume) Time Machine was appending to the file when it did its backups. When I copied the files back I opened the file info and noticed that it said I has custom access. I thought that was odd considering that my individual permissions were set on Read/Write. So I spent about 2 hours fighting with it trying to reset permissions (through changing the permission on a top-level directory and then clicking apply to enclosed items). That applied the setting but didn’t remove the custom access setting that was lingering on the files.
At this point I was getting fed up, getting ready to dump Leopard and (god forbid) go back to Windows, but I couldn’t because all of my files were on a drive that was in a GUID partition table, and formatted with HFS+J. Well, I call Apple tech support (waited on hold for 35 minutes) and then they walked me through setting file permissions, then creating a new account, owning the files with the new account, and then re-owning the files with my account, that should have worked but it didn’t. The ACLs were being reset to my account, but the others weren’t. So I sat down and thought about everything they told me. I even tried the terminal command that sets file permissions (sudo chown account –R … something.) I got to thinking that it could be corrupted ACLs. I then hit Google, and found an obscure terminal command (I do not pretend to know what I am doing in the Terminal, and I do not have a complete understanding of how this command works (I will put it at the bottom)). I then ran it on the folders to clear out the “corrupted” ACLs for the files in the folders (such as Music, Pictures, Movies and so on). That worked, I then had read/write permissions to all of my files. So I hope that this will be able to help someone else out so that the do not waste a day trying to figure out what is going on like I did.
Command:
Credit for this goes to haguejosh (Josh Hague) from a comment posted to the following article: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070501065737278
(Please remember to use caution in the Terminal, incorrect spacing in the command can do bad things).
Without quotes:
“find PATHTOYOURDIRECTORY -depth -exec chmod -a# 0 {} \;”
If I am wrong or completely of base, please tell me as I would like to learn about how the Mac OS works internally.

Answer 1

Yes!
Here's a response from Intego...
"Hello,
You will want to add your Time Machine drive to VirusBarrier X5's Trusted Zone so that the items are not scanned as Time Machine reads and copies to that directory.
You can either do this in VirusBarrier X5's Preferences, under the "Scanner" section.
Or you can add it using the contextual menu by holding down the Control key and clicking on the Time Machine backup volume. A pop-up menu will appear, in the "More" submenu is a submenu for "VirusBarrier X5" with a choice of "Add to Trusted Zone". Choosing this will add the item to VirusBarrier's Trusted Zone and keep it from being scanned by the background scanner.
Thank you for choosing Intego."