Now i am missing some Home data - when i go to Timeshift browse to WD My Passport ( where my snapshots are that i need to restore from ) i am seeing a red bar saying Elevated Privileges & a green Nemo folder box in snapshots with a sort of tick/arrow going up thru the bottom right . Not able to restore ? any suggestions please anyone ? Need address books & financials back etc ... inxi -Fxz
System:
Host: leoboy Kernel: 5.3.0-51-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: H81M-K v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 3602 date: 03/26/2018
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K540/K545
charge: 100% status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4790K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Haswell rev: 3 L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 63850
Speed: 2578 MHz min/max: 800/4400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3170 2: 4127
3: 3379 4: 2743 5: 3482 6: 3347 7: 3742 8: 4139
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: vesa unloaded: fbdev,modesetting
resolution: 1920x1200~N/A
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 9.0 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 19.2.8
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.3.0-51-generic
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.67 TiB used: 991.75 GiB (26.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 size: 1.82 TiB
ID-2: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra size: 28.64 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Western Digital
model: WD My Passport 260D size: 1.82 TiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.79 TiB used: 275.87 GiB (15.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 277 Uptime: 3h 37m Memory: 15.51 GiB used: 4.24 GiB (27.3%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20
inxi: 3.0.32

Sounds like you have root owned files and you are trying to overwrite them with user permissions. I always run backups as root and restore as root to preserve all permissions. But I don't use timeshift or gui stuff for that and have no idea about it, but the permissions message is almost certainly because some of the restored files to be overwritten are root owned.