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<blockquote data-quote="jaxx67367346" data-source="post: 1909922" data-attributes="member: 411962">Wow, what an amazingly helpful write-up, thank you!After many hours today, I managed to copy everything from the &quot;iMac_SSD - Data&quot; to my external hard drive today. I often had to input my master password.Now that I am able to &quot;unlock&quot; the data on the SSD, I can see that everything has been correctly copied with new correct permissions. What is curious is that the &quot;identity&quot; of the original owner of the files seems to have been &quot;lost&quot;. Here's <a href="https://i.imgur.com/voP6Qzs.png" target="_blank">what I see</a> (download folder) when I click &quot;get info&quot; on a &quot;locked&quot; folder : name of the owner is &quot;Fetching...&quot; and even after waiting it doesn't change. Finder is also unable to calculate size. I think that, when I copied the files and gave my admin password, it automatically gave me all permissions. For exemple, here's the <a href="https://i.imgur.com/wKxEAIs.png" target="_blank">download folder</a> that I copied this morning onto my external drive. &quot;Fetching...&quot; has disappeared and I am the only owner. From what I gather, the essential data has been backed-up and permissions have been corrected (?).I will do the second part asap : clean install of Big Sur from recovery mode and repossessing of my data!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jaxx67367346, post: 1909922, member: 411962"] Wow, what an amazingly helpful write-up, thank you! After many hours today, I managed to copy everything from the "iMac_SSD - Data" to my external hard drive today. I often had to input my master password. Now that I am able to "unlock" the data on the SSD, I can see that everything has been correctly copied with new correct permissions. What is curious is that the "identity" of the original owner of the files seems to have been "lost". Here's [URL='https://i.imgur.com/voP6Qzs.png']what I see[/URL] (download folder) when I click "get info" on a "locked" folder : name of the owner is "Fetching..." and even after waiting it doesn't change. Finder is also unable to calculate size. I think that, when I copied the files and gave my admin password, it automatically gave me all permissions. For exemple, here's the [URL='https://i.imgur.com/wKxEAIs.png']download folder[/URL] that I copied this morning onto my external drive. "Fetching..." has disappeared and I am the only owner. From what I gather, the essential data has been backed-up and permissions have been corrected (?). I will do the second part asap : clean install of Big Sur from recovery mode and repossessing of my data! [/QUOTE]

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