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scouser75

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Guys, I'm setting up my MBP from scratch by using the erase all content and settings, but am having major issues! I've tried 3 times today to erase and reset it all but the same things happen everytime! Someone, please help 😭

I backed up all my documents, Music library, Photos file etc on to a backup drive, but:

* When I drag and drop the Photos file from my backup HD to the MBP, I get a message that that file already exists! But there's nothing in the Pictures folder when I'm dragging in the file.

* Somehow, the bin also has a Photos file in there.

* The Recents folder also has a whole load of Word documents I worked on before I erased the Mac.

* Even though the documents I'm dragging and dropping are in total 22gb, when I check the storage data in settings / general, it's showing as 256gb!
 
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