FWIW, I did it! I realized that I had an appropriate drive to clone the SSD from…

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Black wrote:
I think you should wipe the SSD and try again to clone directly from the 1 TB internal. As far as what not to bring over, keep it very simple.
You said in another thread that your cloing app (which I've never heard of) has the option to uncheck files or folders.

Here is your stuff per a previous thread:

Applications=90GB
Desktop=126GB
Documents (which includes the very necessary Microsoft Identity file) =126GB
Downloads=9GB
Dropbox=531MB
Installers Folder=685MB
Movies, Music & Pictures Folders=156GB
Public (seems to only hold Dropbox) =0GB
Stored Desktop Files saved from previous backup (I don't know that this has to be in the Home folder?)=84GB

Question-- where is all this? Does the above describe exactly what you see when you open your "home" folder?

Yes, everything I listed was in my Home Folder.

Black wrote:
Also-- is there anything on the desktop that you may be able to 'put away' into your documents or media folder somewhere?

I'm sure that I could do that. I mainly leave things on my Desktop, so that I won't forget about them. (76 years old and not enough sleep)

Once I bury something, I'll probably never see it again.

I do my best to keep the number of items on my Desktop to a minimum by putting as much as I can in dedicated folders.

I can see that I have an issue that will exist until I am able to link my apps back to the 1TB drive.

I just wanted to check some info that I had put on a Sticky. I couldn't access the saved Stickies back on the 1TB drive.

I opened the 1TB drive in the Finder and made an alias for the Sticky app, but that didn't work.

Is there a simple way for me to access that info from the SSD? If there is, I should be able to use that information with other applications, as well. shouldn't I?

Thanks!