TC restoring from a USB disk

I have a problem trying to restore from a USB drive.
The setup is simple with 2 disks (La Cie) connected to the TC and backing up as planned, at least I can find all files in TM so should be working.
One disk is holding all music file, appox. 100GB. I lost some music files so I wanted to restore.
Restore starts up and ask whether I want to "keep original" "Keep both" or "replace" the folder. Problem is no matter what i do the following message comes up
+The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Music Content” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)+
That is regardless which drive I want to recover to, I even make the "Music Content" folder unique but same result.
I hope somebody have an idea on how to recover my data from TC, in the mean time I try whatever I can figure out

Hi Podini,
Thank you for your answer.
I did all the stuff you have mentioned in your guides, before asking. Your guide is excellent as you cover the issues not described anywhere else, as setting up and running a TC is not really flawless. I had 3 crashes since I bought it a few years ago. But this issue was new.
I did just found a solution, of cause not ideal at all but it works.
1. Instead of recovering to the USB drive I recovered to my harddisk (desktop) -with "recover to.." after securing the size of the recovery files was not take more space than what I have on my HD.
2. Then move the USB drive to the laptop and copy over to the USB.
3. Then move the USB back to the TC and make a recover of the desktop again.
etc. etc.
I tried to recover to another USB disk connected to the TC, but that took forever, worked but slow.
I had to do it in 4 steps as I did not have 100GB space on my laptop HD.
It is not ideal but works, which is of cause the main purpose.
I really like the TC but it does takes a bit of insight to get it up running and utilizing everything. It could be nice if setup software was more clear and comprehensive. As there is a lot of good and relevant questions in this forum.
Thanks again and hope you can use my solition

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