Data recovery for another user? I'm attempting to recover data from an external drive used as a Time Machine backup for a now deceased user.  The Mac that it was attached to is now long gone.  My first attempt lets me generally read the disk, but I'm locked out of the individual user documents folders.  This is a business device and I do have administrator passwords, but I'm uncertain on the correct approach to gain access to those folders.

Is there a way to successfully gain access to this data and how do I do it?
Start by  clicking on the folder, select Get Info under Sharing &amp; Permissions and grant yourself read permission.

Try to access the folder via Terminal. Use sudo if required.

If you can read the files this way, copy them over to your home directory and change the ownership to yourself using chown command.

You should be able to gain access to the files this way.