Ownership Enabled Question

Thank you :-)

I assumed that not finding the "Ignore Ownership" checkmark in "Get Info" was a Mavericks issue, when in fact all I had to do was not look at the origin hard drive but the destination hard drive instead! Thank you AlexF!

Fantastic find.

Only after doing that, and getting:

File system user/group ownership enabled

In terminal, I'm still not able to see the owernship option in the Get Info window (which I need to safeguard an old time machine backup, which I want to move to a subfolder or different drive)

I no longer get the drive ownership error when I access the time machine backup; but now it is operation not supported, and I don't have that bottom line under permissions to ignore ownership or not.

Edit: Meant to be a reply one level higher, to the person posting the command.

Hi everyone!

This is starting to get on my nerves...

I have read all the posts and tried to locate "Ignore the Ownership" on my DESTINATION drive! I still can't! No matter if I unlock the lock and scroll down, it doesn't show up! Please help!!! Have a look:

I am undertaking exactly the same process ie trying to restore a Time Machine Backup from on external drive to another external drive.

Select the destination drive

File/Get Info

Click on the padlock at the bottom of the screen (input your admin password)

untick ignore ownership on this volume

Then drag the time machine backup file from the source drive to the destination drive.

Thanks! FYI for those with this problem, ruderstak's suggestion to type sudo diskutil enableOwnership APEX into the Terminal (substituting the name of the drive for APEX) worked with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 when all the other remedies suggested did not -- I was not seeing the "Ignore Ownership" in the Get Info window either. Destination external drive already had a Time Machine backup from a different HD. I was able to create a folder on the destination external and copy my Time Machine Backup into it from a different external.

Alex -

Fabulous. After a day of frustration I finally turned to the forum and found your fix. Thanks alot!

vagtas,

One possibility is that those drives may have been used in the past as backup drives (or in some other way previously assigned "ownership"). To be sure that's not the case, delete the drive you want to use as your new backup, and that should delete any prior "ownership" that was associated with that drive, Then, the "ignore ownership" option should appear in the Get Info window. Make sure you've scrolled all the way to the bottom since that option may appear below the default size window.

Thanks this really helped me as well!

I "solved" this by unchecking the "Backups.backupdb" from my source selection when copying. Apparently (??) you can't copy Time Machine backups to a new hard drive unless its formatted Mac OSX Extended. This is ******** because I don't even want to use the destination hard drive as a Time Machine backup implementation I just want to copy the data.

Trying to zip up the Backups.backupdb file and see what happens. In the meantime I'm just copying everything else and it works fine. That "ignore ownership" button is gone though in Mavericks.

sorry to throw in another monkey wrench

i unchecked the ignore ownership on the destination drive

but-it still says

The backup can’t be copied because the backup volume doesn’t have ownership enabled

You will get a better response opening a new thread as this one was solved three years ago.

Cheers

Pete

You da man!

You might need to unlock the drive on the bottom right, uncheck the "ignore ownership" box and re-lock the drive.

I'm sure you've figured this out by now, but for others who are running into the same problem - I think the issue is that your drive was set to "read-only" for your user. If you change it to "Read & Write" the checkbox you are looking for should be available.