How can I clean up my powerbook from my previous used Iphone backups? I think I have several backups 300 GB...

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How can I clean up my powerbook from my previous used Iphone backups? I think I have several backups 300 GB...

How can I clean up my powerbook from my previous used Iphone backups? I think I have several backups apx. 300 GB... I had 270 GB of free space yesterday and my Iphone was backed up on my Mac book Pro, total space 1TB. When backed up my new phone i lost another 120 GB of free space. Can't find out how to delete the "old" Iphone copy. All previous Iphones are connected to the same Apple ID and I did regular backups via Itunes for many years. I think a big part of my used space (now 800 GB) on my computer are previous Iphone backups...

How can I find out about this and delete the old backups?

Thank you for helping! Best Marten

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14

Posted on Dec 28, 2019 8:55 AM

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turingtest2

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Dec 28, 2019 9:27 AM in response to martensthlm

Look under iTunes > Preferences > Devices to remove device backups known to iTunes, or see Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support if you want to try to remove data that might have been somehow orphaned from the system. As long as your device is working correctly right now you could in principle delete all backups and then backup the device to create a new one. Typically there is one rolling backup per device until it used to perform a restore or you use that preference pane to create an archive copy.

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