Read only attribute after back up restore

[nez]

My company recently required that we allow them to reimage all our
HD's. I had been backing up with Time Machine, but our IT department
requires that we do not use the restore function as it has been
causing problems. So I restored my documents by just copying the
folders written by Time Machine back onto my main HD.

Since this upgrade, I am now using OSX 10.5.8 and Word 12.2.1, and all
of my Office files seem to now be set as read only. If I try to save
them with a new name to the same folder, I get a write protect error,
tho I can save renamed to a different location.

I hate to have rename and/or change the permission on all of my files,
and so would like to do a global change to this attribute. Is this
possible. This is soon enough after my restoration, that I would be
willing to re copy my back up files if that would be a way to make the
change.

It looks like it was Time Machine that changed all the attributes, as
all the files in the back up are also set to read only. Is Time
Machine really a problem, and if so can you recommend a better back up
application, hopefully one that does not make this change, or can you
explain how to change this feature in Time machine?

Thanks so much

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Nez;

You may get some insights here, but Time Machine is an Apple application
that ships with OS X. I'm not sure if anyone in the Microsoft groups
considers themselves qualified to deal with such an issue. Even if so, you'd
probably get a faster response if you post to the appropriate Apple
Discussions Forum or contact Apple Support:

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

http://www.apple.com/support/

In the meantime you might run Disk Utility - Repair Disk Permissions to see
if that will remedy the situation.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

You need to ask your IT Department about this.

When you restore from Time Machine, it knows to put the files back with the
same meta data as they had originally (permissions, attributes).

When you "copy" with the Finder, it copies all the metadata with the file.
So they will be wrong when they get back.

If you know how to use Terminal, you can copy and set the attributes any way
you like. But if you get it wrong, the results can be a bit embarrassing.

So ask the IT Department how they intend to solve your problem

Cheers

My company recently required that we allow them to reimage all our
HD's. I had been backing up with Time Machine, but our IT department
requires that we do not use the restore function as it has been
causing problems. So I restored my documents by just copying the
folders written by Time Machine back onto my main HD.

Since this upgrade, I am now using OSX 10.5.8 and Word 12.2.1, and all
of my Office files seem to now be set as read only. If I try to save
them with a new name to the same folder, I get a write protect error,
tho I can save renamed to a different location.

I hate to have rename and/or change the permission on all of my files,
and so would like to do a global change to this attribute. Is this
possible. This is soon enough after my restoration, that I would be
willing to re copy my back up files if that would be a way to make the
change.

It looks like it was Time Machine that changed all the attributes, as
all the files in the back up are also set to read only. Is Time
Machine really a problem, and if so can you recommend a better back up
application, hopefully one that does not make this change, or can you
explain how to change this feature in Time machine?

Thanks so much

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[nez]

You need to ask your IT Department about this.

That's a laugh. I don't know if this is common, but our IT dept can
resemble that SNL sketch. I've already been back to them 3 times
trying to get my machine working again after they had if for 4 hours,
and everytime I catch hell and am blamed for somehow messing it up.
Like for using Time Machine. But geez, they're the ones who installed
the program in the first place, and told us to do back up, and so I
assumed I should use it. It wasn't until they wiped my data that they
told us we should not be using that program, all the while forbidding
us from adding any software to "their" machines. .

Anyway, that's why I am trying to solve this on my own, as I really
don't want to have to face all that again. It's all catch 22 down
there. I'm trying the repair permission utility and will check out
Terminal, and if i can't solve it go back to IT.

Thanks so much for the advice