Unable to restore aperture library using time machine

Aperture's UI was being barely responsive earlier today, and when I deleted a photo, it ended up actually deleting an entire album.
So I close Aperture and go to my last Time Machine backup to restore my Aperture library. The restore is going perfectly normally, but it gets about halfway through and stops. It throws up a "You do not have permission to do that" notice.
I've tried doing this numerous ways, including an actual "Restore" via Time Machine and also simply pulling the Aperture library off the Time Machine HDD via Finder. Same result no matter what I do.
Help please! I'm looking at an icon of my Aperture library that has all my photos in it, but I cannot copy it!

Thanks, MacDLS. I had checked the permissions under Get Info, but I don't remember an "ignore ownership" option. I'll look for it.
The problem may be a corrupted HDD. After posting my question, I ran Disk Utility, and it was unable to complete a "Repair Disk" on the backup HDD. So I'm assuming there are some corrupted sectors.

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I tried restoring from Time macinie from a few days earlier. Took about 1.5 hours to restore, but when opening Aperture, the library showes still the empty 2012 Project folders and the new Scrapbooking Project just created yesterday is still there!!!
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