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Ubele

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Mar 20, 2008
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I have an early 2015 MBP with a stock 256 GB SSD running Catalina. I've been booting from an external 1 TB SSD, since I have around 700 GB of files in my Documents folder, which I sync to iCloud Drive. I just replaced the stock internal SSD with a 1 TB internal SSD from OWC and used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the external drive to the internal drive. All went well, except that macOS thinks that all the files in my Documents folder need to be uploaded to iCloud Drive. It doesn't realize that these are the same files that are already up there. I created a couple of new documents on my MBP, but they haven't synced up to iCloud Drive and down to my iMac. How do I sync my MBP Documents files with the ones on iCloud Drive without uploading 700 GB worth of duplicates or accidentally deleting everything? Do I just log out of iCloud on my MBP and log back in?
 

lederermc

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Sep 30, 2014
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When I replace a system drive I install a new clean OS and have iCloud download to populate the disk. Files that live outside the Document and photos I just drag/drop from old to new. I would never expect iCloud to realize the cloned file are actually the same as originals. I do have gigabit internet so this isn't a big deal for me. You could restore from TM is you want to avoid hosing our Internet.
 

Ubele

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Mar 20, 2008
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Update: Sync appears to be working properly, after all, albeit slowly. Documents are uploading from my MBP to iCloud Drive, but they aren't making duplicates. So iCloud must be comparing them.
 
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