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Originally Posted by dnanian
All sorts of things - I do try to indicate this in the "What's going to happen?" section: various temporary files, swap files, sleep images and the like aren't copied, since they have no meaning across a restart and/or will interfere with restoration to a different Mac.
With a "pure" data drive, the sizes will be closer, but even then the Spotlight information may be different (since it's preserved on the destination).
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Now I understand--thank you for your help.
I knew about temporary and system-specific files not being copied, but sleep images were not on my radar and since this was so large (3.5 GB), I thought something might be wrong.
David