Hard Drive is Full

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Hard Drive is Full

Hello community, I'm having an issue with my iPhone backup, so my SSD is a 118GB SSD where I have my Windows OS and nothing else and I decided to back up my iPhone to my Windows PC with iTunes , it was a backup of 40gb, so since my Windows is like 20GB and the backup was like 40GB it was fine, but then when I wanted to restore my iPhone to the backup it said that the restore failed because some files couldn't be trasnfered, and I noticed everytime I try to backup from my iTunes backup the backup goes up in space, it takes up 80GB of space now and my hard drive is full, everytime I try to backup it goes up in space and thats why It fails, my SSD literally had 0GB left of space and the backup fails when its at no space left, is there anything I can do to fix this, I was thinking moving the backup to a different hard drive but I'm not sure if i'm going to be able to backup from iTunes if I move the backup.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

iPhone X, iOS 12

Posted on Jun 25, 2019 1:36 PM

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turingtest2

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Jun 27, 2019 6:27 PM in response to baradiels

What is the full command you've entered? Should be something like:

MkLink /J "C:\Users\bdedu\Apple\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\MobileSync\Backup"

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turingtest2

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Jun 28, 2019 3:30 AM in response to baradiels

You need to delete the now empty Backup folder on the C: drive, then try again.

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turingtest2

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Jun 26, 2019 8:20 AM in response to baradiels

See Relocate iOS device backups. Review the rest of the Make a split library portable user tip for advice on organizing the library on external storage. Note, even if you use this method to push the data to a different drive iTunes will still check the free space on the main system drive, so you must free up enough there so that a backup could be completed.

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baradiels Author

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Jun 27, 2019 6:20 PM in response to turingtest2

'"C:\Users\bdedu\Apple\MobileSync\Backup"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

That's what appears when I put the command in the cmd, I'm not sure why its not being recognized because I do have files in that location, the apple ones, there is nothing inside them because I followed ur guide and cut them out to the D: drive.

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baradiels Author

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Jun 27, 2019 6:32 PM in response to turingtest2

Oh I missed the MkLink /J because you highlighted in red the rest of the command, I though it was the highlighted one only.

Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

Is what appeared when I copied the full command.

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baradiels Author

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Jun 25, 2019 2:12 PM in response to Kappy

I have another SSD with nothing on it so I can use it, but I was told moving the backup file to a different SSD will not let me restore from that backup anymore.

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Kappy

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Jun 25, 2019 2:32 PM in response to baradiels

I am not familiar with backup and restore for the iPhone. It seems to me that the backup is already corrupted in some way that prevents restoring. This may be true regardless of which drive it is on.

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Kappy

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Jun 25, 2019 1:42 PM in response to baradiels

I would attempt to move your backup files to another drive, but if the SSD is full, then you many no longer be able to access the drive. In this case, you will need to erase the drive and lose everything on it. You can try connecting the drive to another computer and try accessing it from the other computer.

How to Free Up Space on The Hard Drive

You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
Also, see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
What is 'Other' and 'Purgeable' in About This Mac?
Files That Make Up the 'Other' Storage Category, and How to Remove Them
Free up storage space on your Mac.
See Where did my Disk Space go?.
Be sure to Empty the Trash to recover the space.
Replace the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Use OmniDiskSweeper or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

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