I restored a Time Machine backup to my external drive. Now on this external drive, every time I try to move a file or folder, copy a file or folder or rename a file or folder, my TouchID or password is required. There is obviously a permissions issue occurring. My computer was not doing this before. How do I fix this?
MacBook Pro 14″
I upgraded from version 15.7.2
I did some more Internet searching and from trial and error, I figured out how to fix this. After restoring the Time Machine backup, first I did a "Get Info" on my external drive and made sure at the very bottom left of the Get Info popup window, that the "Ignore ownership on this volume" has the checkbox checked. And then next, right above, I clicked the down arrow that appears to the right of the 3 dots inside a circle icon that reveals a drop down menu with the "Apply to Enclosed items..." option. After Finder updated the enclosed items, everything started working like before. I can copy over files, move them around again and rename them without being asked for TouchID/password anymore.
I upgraded from version 15.7.2
I did some more Internet searching and from trial and error, I figured out how to fix this. After restoring the Time Machine backup, first I did a "Get Info" on my external drive and made sure at the very bottom left of the Get Info popup window, that the "Ignore ownership on this volume" has the checkbox checked. And then next, right above, I clicked the down arrow that appears to the right of the 3 dots inside a circle icon that reveals a drop down menu with the "Apply to Enclosed items..." option. After Finder updated the enclosed items, everything started working like before. I can copy over files, move them around again and rename them without being asked for TouchID/password anymore.
You should never move, copy or rename a file or folder on your Time Machine backup drive.
If you want to manually move, copy or rename file's or folder's somewhere for backup, then you should do that on a separate external drive.
I don't think you understand my question or my situation. I'm not moving, copying or renaming anything on my Time Machine drive. I'm talking about the files on my external drive that a Time Machine backup was restored to.
Here's more back story. I have an external drive connected to my MBP that I use to store the majority of my files. I made a Time Machine backup before upgrading to MacOS 15.7.3. I backed up my boot drive and the external drive. After upgrading the OS, my external drive would only go into Read only mode. So I reformatted it and restored the recently made Time Machine backup using the top menu bar Time Machine icon method, choosing the "Browse Time Machine Backups" from the dropdown menu. The external drive is only for files, I do not start up from it at all.
OK thank you, that helps a little.
What macOS version was the MBP running before you upgraded it to macOS Sequoia 15.7.3..?
I wish we would have had a chance to work on that external drive and your data files, before you reformatted and tried to restore it from Time Machine.
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Does the new MBP have the same user ID as the old Mac?
How exactly did you restore TM to the external drive?
Are you started up from that external drive?
Good work. Glad to hear you found a solution.
Time Machine backup to external drive keeps asking for TouchID/password every time I move, copy or rename a file or folder
