New Air, Time Machine install, Access Rights

I just bought a new MacBook Air and to move all my files from my old MacBook Air, I did a restore from Time Machine. Now there are many files that I directories I cannot put files in unless I sign in using my Admin password? What happened? Also, sometimes when I want to rename an ordinary data file I get a message saying, "You do not have sufficient access privileges to rename the item "filename". Any idea what's going on and how I can resolve it?
I did a search on the forum and found advice to run the command "man chown" but no explanation as to what it does.
Any help would be appreciated!

Launch the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run:
sudo chown -R $UID ~
Provide your administrator password; nothing will appear in the Terminal window while it is being typed.
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