Don't have room on my hard drive for backup!

[MacGeekAZ]

I am limping along with my iBook G4 with a 60GB hard drive, which is always pretty much full. When I tried to update my iPhone to iOS 5, I got a message saying that first it would need to back up my phone, and I don't have enough room on my hard drive. (Needs 8GB; I have 4GB available.)

Any ideas? I'm thinking of moving my iTunes library to my external hard drive temporarily. Bad idea?

Wendi

 

[barnetty]

only posibility is to find stuff you can move to your hard drive or simply delete. I am sure if you open your apps there are things in there that you haven't used ever.

 

[SDub90]

Do you have older backups on there already? Had the same problem a while ago and just deleted old backups that would no longer be relevant, quick way of clearing 120GB for me that day.

Moving old files onto an external then just put them back in the same place, no trouble there.

 

[MacGeekAZ]

Do you have older backups on there already? Had the same problem a while ago and just deleted old backups that would no longer be relevant, quick way of clearing 120GB for me that day.

Moving old files onto an external then just put them back in the same place, no trouble there.

How do I find older backups?

Wendi

 

[SDub90]

How do I find older backups?

Wendi

inside your user folder:

/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/backup

I'm sure you can also find them in iTunes.

 

[lighthouse_man]

If you're deleting backups, do them through iTunes preferences/Devices

 

[realchimera]

I am limping along with my iBook G4 with a 60GB hard drive, which is always pretty much full. When I tried to update my iPhone to iOS 5, I got a message saying that first it would need to back up my phone, and I don't have enough room on my hard drive. (Needs 8GB; I have 4GB available.)

Any ideas? I'm thinking of moving my iTunes library to my external hard drive temporarily. Bad idea?

Wendi

It may take even less time to replace a hard drive