Slackening off the pinch bolts and bouncing the front will align the forks (ensure they are parallel) and help with RHS (brake lever side) caliper alignment with the disc, but it won’t have any effect on the LHS (clutch lever side) caliper at all. The horizontal position of the LHS caliper is fixed in relation to the disc by the axle spacer. Not only is it always in the same horizontal position, it will also always perpendicular to the axle. Only the RHS fork leg can slide in or outwards as its position is not governed by a spacer only by what point the pinch bolts are nipped up.
Looking at your clutch side caliper, the thing that grabs my attention is that the caliper body is not parallel to the brake disc, which it always should be; it is rubbing only on its upper/outer edge. As this caliper is in a fixed position determined by the spacer (and that it is rigidly bolted to the fork leg), it should be perfectly perpendicular to the axle and therefore parallel to the disc. Yours is not.
The only plausible ways for the disc and caliper to be out of parallel (like yours) are:
(a) The axle is not screwed tight into the LH fork leg (and therefore the spacer is not nipped up between bearing inner race and fork leg).
(b) You have excessive play in one or both wheel bearings
(c) The axle is bent or worn
(d) You have a warped brake disc
(e) The bobbins/springs have seized or broken and the disc is only partially floating and/or not centralised on its carrier.
(f) The caliper is bent or distorted
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