Time Machine dbfiles in Trash - how to recover?

You'd think it would be easy - drag them back.
Well, two hours later, its still clucking away,
'Preparing to Copy' over 12 million items and counting. Wow.
Can I actually expect this to work?
These are all my backups to May.
Thanks!

TorontoDad wrote:
If the intention of the permissions is to protect the files - they were unsuccessful.
It might be useful to know how to hide such files to prevent accidental selection. Not everyone is going to have a special Time Machine drive and then another for all other backups.
True. But if you have other data on that drive, it should be in a separate partition. See #3 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum. If you do that, there will be no reason to be poking around in your backups via the Finder.
And if those are your only backups, they're at risk no matter what app you use. All disk drives fail, sooner or later. Just the other day there was a post where someone was doing a full restore from their TimeMachine backups. It was nearly done when BAM! the external drive failed. (Murphy was an optimist.)
So yes, consider Mozy or the like; and/or a separate external HD, perhaps with a full
bootable clone" updated at least weekly via CarbonCopyCloner (which I use) or SuperDuper; even CDs/DVDs (which I also use); +*in addition*+ to Time Machine.

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