Originally published at: Solving the Backblaze “Permission Denied” Restore Error - TidBITS
The relatively new Backblaze Restore app makes it much faster and easier to restore backed-up files to your Mac, but if your initial restore fails with a “Permission denied” error, here’s the solution.
I hope Yev or his team also agreed to fix the “Something went terribly wrong” error message. In going beyond unhelpfulness to actually alarming the user, that’s one of the worst such messages I’ve seen.
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“requesting to bypass the system window picker” is almost as bad.
So… Adam, the new Restore app is a little better? Much better? It’s hard to tell from the article vs. your comment above.
I’ve only had to do test restores, so I don’t have a serious opinion about the Backblaze Restore app. The only problems are how slowly it retrieves its file list and how often it has to regenerate that list while you work in the app. The error message is poor but not problematic for an experienced user.
All in all, it seems like an improvement over the Web-based restore interface.