Have to give permission to staff & everyone to restore backup file over data file

TechnoJock

Can anyone explain why I had to grant the above permissions to my existing data file in order to restore from a backup? I have a Mac Mini & MacBook and when I travel I backup the file - restore it on the MacBook which went fine. However, upon returning and trying to restore to my Mini - I was told I did not have sufficient privileges to overwrite the existing data file. I'm the owner and only user - doesn't make any sense. Thanks in advance.

Quicken Anja

Hello @TechnoJock,

Thank you for reaching out to the Community and describing your issue, though I apologize that you are experiencing this.

In order to better assist you further, if you don't mind, could you please provide a screenshot of the error message you described receiving? If needed, please refer to this Community FAQ for instructions on how to attach a screenshot. Alternatively, you can also drag and drop screenshots to your response if you are not given the option to add attachments.

Thank you!

jacobs

How, exactly, were you trying to replace your current data file? Insufficient permission is a macOS issue, not something managed by Quicken. I’m trying to understand exactly how you were doing this.

TechnoJock

When I received the error - I did a File/Restore From Backup...

I then selected the backup file, then selected where to restore - which was to to overwrite the existing Quicken data directory.

I then received the message indicating inability to restore the file due to permissions. I believe it also recommended doing a "Get Info" on the existing directory to see what permissions were present.

I did such things and it showed that I had Read & Write permissions, "Staff" and "Everyone" had read-only permissions. I'm assuming this is Mac OS's implementation of Linux/Unix owner/group/world.

I gave staff & everyone read & write permission and it worked.

Just doesn't make sense to me. As far as posting an image - I guess I can do that should I run into the problem the next time I perform this process. I really don't want to start mucking with these files just for shiggles.

Thanks.