Okay, panic over. I recursively stripped the ACLs and things are working.

Next time I drop a table from phpMyAdmin, I'll carefully read the little thing 
that pops up saying I'm about to drop an entire database... :-( One gets so 
"yea, whatever" to warning notifiers...)

Thanks to all who sent helpful suggestions!

On 2013-01-09, at 07:33, Jan Steinman wrote:

> I accidentally dropped a crucial database. My only backup is via Apple's Time 
> Machine.
> 
> First, I stopped mysqld and copied (via tar) the database in question from 
> the backup. Restarted, but drat -- most of the tables were apparently using 
> innodb's ibdata1 file, as only the MyISAM tables showed up in phpMyAdmin.
> 
> I copied the ibdata1, but then mysqld wouldn't start, complaining about no 
> mysql.sock, which was odd, because it was there.
> 
> I then copied (via tar) the entire set of all databases, but am still having 
> problems, I think related to Time Machine's ACL lists and extended attributes.
> 
> Anyone have experience and wise words on restoring a database from Time 
> Machine?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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