Subj : Hello again
To   : Patch
From : Tracker1
Date : Fri Sep 15 2023 07:52 pm

 Pa> A few year back my Pi suffered a crash and I ended up reinstalling things
 Pa> to get it back online. When I attempted to grab the files from a previous
 Pa> backup of the mystic folder, I was met with 'access denied' when I tried
 Pa> to open the MIS application to configure the BS. 

You probably need to reset the ownership/permissions of the directory/files in question...

chown -R user:group /path
and/or
chmod -R a+rwX /path

Would search to confirm either of the above are correct for you, this is off the top of my head and I don't always remember the syntax right.
  
   
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