MobileSync Folder in Application Support?

Excellent. Thank you. It worked perfectly and recoved a lot of space.

ANother question on the subject: if now I backup my phone and ipad to the cloud, I assume I can delete this folder, right? Mine is also 24GB and I could use that space

Yes.

Doers the mobile sync folder back up text messages, and if so how do you read them?

Excellent!, I deleted some old backups and saved me like 6 gigs!!

Chris CA wrote:

in iTunes, go to Preferences > Devices.

If you wish to delete backups, do it there.

This just saved me 10 GB. It was astonishing what I had backed up! Thanks!

That saved me nearly 8GB, I'm trying to find lots of stuff to delete and that helped alot!

I downloaded a software called Omnidisksweeper.

This saved me 13 gigabytes!

Perfect. Thx.

DIsk Inventory X is a must have app for managing your hard drive space on a Mac. Found out about it at the Genius Bar. Great stuff!

Thanks, man. Freed up 17GB on my drive. I still had backups from 2010 on devices that I no longer have.

I was able to delete a bunch of old backups and clear up several GB of space with this. Thanks!

Perfect and worked like a treat. Cleared a massive 60Gb and there is still more I could delete. Thank you so much Chris 🙂

You will need to restore one of these backups to an IOS device to read them. Note: The restore process wipes out what is already on that device.