Time machine local snapshot restoring hangs

Interested in others experiances with restoring form a local snapshot. Mine fail. They cause finder to stall at "preparing to copy". I have tested by clearing the local snapshot and then letting my Macbook pro create a new one. Then tried to restore from the new one and it still stalls at "preparing to copy". I am hoping someone might have an idea as to why?
Ran all the standard basic repairs like PRam reset, boot to recovery partition and ran Disk Permissions and repair disk. All passed and fine.
Thanks

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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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