This isn’t a permissions problem at all – the internal SSD is completely full.
When the APFS volume that holds your home folder has no free blocks, macOS will
~/Library/Mobile Documents
(the real iCloud Drive folder) inaccessible.Because of that, Finder’s “Get Info”, chmod
, etc. can’t help.
Your admin account already has root rights via sudo; you just have to give the system some breathing room.
fix You only need a few gigabytes of free space for everything to unlock again.
Stop Carbon Copy Cloner and delete its snapshot
CCC makes an APFS snapshot of the source before it starts copying; that snapshot is probably eating tens of gigabytes.
In CCC choose Delete SafetyNet / Snapshot
If you can’t launch CCC? Use Terminal:
sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots <snapshot-name> # repeat for every name returned
Then turn iCloud Drive off
~/iCloud Drive (Archive)/
.Then try deleting you failed copy
This can be done in your terminal like so
sudo rm -rf ~/iCloud\ Drive\ $$Archive$$/<big_folder>
If the archive folder wasn’t created, look in
~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ instead.
Turn your iCloud back on and give it a few minutes everything that was fully in iCloud reappears and your local copy should be gone