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Permissions restoring from Time Machine - Finder copy vs "cp" copy

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Note: this question was starting to sprawl so I rewrote it. I have a folder that I'm trying to restore from a Time Machine backup. Using works fine, but certain folders cannot be restored with either the Time Machine UI or Finder. Other users have reported similar errors and the workaround was sugg…

Error Output

ben ~/Desktop/test $ ls -lea
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   7 ben   staff   238 27 Nov 14:31 .
drwx------+ 17 ben   staff   578 27 Nov 14:29 ..
 0: group:ever…

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Fix for: Permissions restoring from Time Machine - Finder copy vs "cp" copy

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Aside from regular UNIX file permissions (user/group/everyone each having their own read/write/execute permissions) Mac OS X also uses Access Control Lists (ACLs) that allow much more granular file/folder permissions settings. Time Machine adds (pre…

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