Premiere won't let me link to media on a time machine hard drive

The files I am working with aren't located in the Time Machine backup folders. It's just located in a  folder on the main drive directory. I have other data and folders on the drive in addition to the TM back ups foldres.

I think Time Machine can be disabled easily but I'm not sure what backups could get lost in the process. Better yet, can you find the file in Time Machine and copy it out?

Thank you.. I normally would not use a time machine back up drive for editing. In this instance, I needed to. Just looking for a quick work around here or a way to disable time machine so I can read it through premiere.

Is there a reason you need to use the time machine drive for serving media for editing? I can think of a few reasons why linking to media on a dedicated Time Machine drive (or partition) would be a bad idea. If you don't have extra drives, you should are least set up partition for a working drive and a backup drive.

Yes, it's one partition. Hmm that's interesting, on the drive information, it says read and write for the system permissions. I was also able to use this drive to edit off of on pervious versions of Premiere.

Is this all on one partition? I'm pretty sure Time Machine drives are set to read only to preserve the bachups. I think you'd have to partion the drive to use it for data.