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Julia_Buster

macrumors newbie
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Jul 6, 2022
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Hello!

First of all I like to disclose that I don't know much about computers, so I hope I'm using the right terminology. I just updated to Mac OS Monterey. During the update, a new partition was automatically made as a backup (called "Nieuw"). When the software update was done, I tried to put my update to the old partition, but unfortunately this was not possible due to too little harddrive space. I unchecked some boxes and completed the update, while not transferring the full backup. Now the backup is still on my computer and I only have 2gb of free space left (while this was 44gb before the update). So basically I have two problems for which I need help.

  1. How do I transfer the complete backup to my updated laptop
  2. After the backup is transferred, how do I remove the partition, so I have discspace again?

I hope someone can help me.

Thanks in advance!

Julia
 

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Fishrrman

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Feb 20, 2009
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Do you keep a backup (created with time machine or possibly something else) on an EXTERNAL drive...?
 
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