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<blockquote data-quote="p_rod" data-source="post: 1515928" data-attributes="member: 174646">Hi, Dennis!&nbsp;Thank you very much for tackling this problem for me. I just tried to do what you suggested and when I use the Get Info, I do not have anything at the bottom of the box that alows me to check or uncheck Ignore Ownership. Did I screw up something earlier when I clicked on the little asterisk at the bottom and then clicked on &quot;Are you sure you want to apply the selected owner, group, and permissions to all the enclosed items?&quot;&nbsp; I did that earlier (that's what took so many hours to complete). I thought I was OK'ing ownership to the files I wanted to copy over...but it seems to me now that the pooch is scrood. ;-( THat action I did is not reversible, or so says the little box that popped up.&nbsp;Worse case scenario is I just go buy another drive and start over with a new backup and keep this older drive on hand just in case. &nbsp;One other question for you. I only have half the drive partitioned for Time Machine...so the next time I back up can I just direct Time Machine to back up to that other partition, thereby leaving the older backup alone? I don't want TM to cast away my older backups when it backs up to the TM directory as it just did yesterday. &nbsp;Again, thank you for your assistance!Cheers!Pat</blockquote>

[QUOTE="p_rod, post: 1515928, member: 174646"] Hi, Dennis! Thank you very much for tackling this problem for me. I just tried to do what you suggested and when I use the Get Info, I do not have anything at the bottom of the box that alows me to check or uncheck Ignore Ownership. Did I screw up something earlier when I clicked on the little asterisk at the bottom and then clicked on "Are you sure you want to apply the selected owner, group, and permissions to all the enclosed items?" I did that earlier (that's what took so many hours to complete). I thought I was OK'ing ownership to the files I wanted to copy over...but it seems to me now that the pooch is scrood. ;-( THat action I did is not reversible, or so says the little box that popped up. Worse case scenario is I just go buy another drive and start over with a new backup and keep this older drive on hand just in case. One other question for you. I only have half the drive partitioned for Time Machine...so the next time I back up can I just direct Time Machine to back up to that other partition, thereby leaving the older backup alone? I don't want TM to cast away my older backups when it backs up to the TM directory as it just did yesterday. Again, thank you for your assistance! Cheers! Pat [/QUOTE]

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