Backup malfunction
I started to backup my phone in my MacBook air. It suddenly stopped halfway through and around 50GB of storage are taking up space and i cannot find where it is stored.
iPhone 8
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• Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204215
To find a specific backup:
"On a Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15 or later, open the Finder.
On a Mac with macOS Mojave 10.14 or earlier, or on a PC, open iTunes."
• How to Restore iOS Backups in MacOS with Finder (Big Sur & Catalina) | osxdaily
https://osxdaily.com/2020/09/28/how-restore-ios-backups-macos-finder/
• How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977
[Not all Mac storage is suspect. Consider there's likely
a larger section known only as 'Other', involved.] See:
• See used and available storage space on your Mac - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/system-information/syspf9b375b9/11.0/mac/11.0
Hopefully you've additional backups (two or more) for the macOS: incl. Time Machine,
on external USB drives. And other backups; consider full-clones of the Mac in addition.
Powered external drives with fast ports, are good to run the Mac from, as needed.