Question about restore from Timemachine

Today, I did a restore from Time Machine of my "Pictures" folder. I was surprised to see that it blessed and renamed the "new" Pictures folder, "Pictures (original)". Is this normally what it does ie rename a folder like this. Moreover, the folder name seems read only, and defies any attempt to rename it just "Pictures". Any insight would be welcome.
Thanks in advance and a happy upcoming New Year to all.

Well, after about 20 hrs its done "processing" and all is in order.  So I guess when you do a full restore from TimeMachine it acts like a new import.

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