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Backed up the whole disk image to an external drive because I didn't have time for a proper backup but knew I would need some of those files later.
Installed a fresh new OS on the same disk, used it for a couple of months.
Needed to make some space on the external drive I had the backup on so I'll just delete the backed up system files from it.
As you can probably see, a fresh new install was happening again
Took me a solid second to get it as well.
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