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giftsandcurses

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I just upgraded from my previous 500 GB hard drive to a new 500 GB hard drive in my late 2008 unibody Macbook Pro. I have an external 500 GB hard drive that I use for my Time Machine Backups also. I used CCC to clone my original hard drive to the new internal one and everything went just fine.

I also deleted all my Time Machine backups from the external so I could just create a new one after the upgrade and cleared all the trash bins too. But now when I try and create the Time Machine backup, it gives an error that 592 GB is needed to create the initial backup, even though it is only from a 500 GB drive (of which only 440 GB) is being used. I wouldn't think this would be a possible error. Can anyone offer some help, or did I just shoot myself in the foot? Thanks.
 
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