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My main problem is I don't have permissions to access a Time Machine back up of all my files.
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The sparsebundle was the backing store of your FV home directory. When you deleted it, you destroyed all your data. Legacy FV has poor compatibility with Time Machine. The sparsebundle is backed up only when you log out. You'll have to find the last such snapshot and restore from it.

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