<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Pedro Grima Guallart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PGRIMA@telefonica.net" target="_blank">PGRIMA@telefonica.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I can't copy my TimeMachine folder (Backups.backupdb) to another disk because the proprietary is macports. I can't fix this neither using information window nursing BatChmod application (attached captions).<br>
May you help me?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>(The proper translation there is "owner"; the closest-by-derivation English word would be "proprietor", and "proprietary" has a meaning which is rather confusing when used in this context!)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Are you doing this as an administrator? If so, the Finder should be asking for your administrator password in order to move it ... although this has in the past been rather buggy. I prefer using sudo and something that is guaranteed to copy everything appropriately (ditto or rsync; not cp and most certainly NOT tar!).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just moving a Time Machine backup database around can be difficult anyway because Time Machine sets custom ACLs on everything in it.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div>
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