Forgive me, but I'm stuck in Jack-*** with this issue...BUT WAIT, MINE's DIFFERENT!! ;-) HAHAHA.
THANKS IN ADVANCE GOTTA GET MY LITTLE GIRLS TO SCHOOL NO TIME FOR MORE PROOFING AND MAKING ONE SIMPLE PARAGRAPH INSTEAD OF THIS DIATRIBE. SO TAKE MY APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE AS WELL, PLEASE.
Sorry if this comes dis-jointed but I've been up all night (fortunately not with this)...but this has had me on a wild goose chase for used space on my Mac for the past 6 months or so. Since I never saw an option to "unhide" a folder when I switched over from PCs in 2010, I figured there wasn't such a thing. I come to learn (after simply searching Help an hour ago) that I can find a different folder named "Library" if I hold down the alt/option key WHILE clicking on "Go" in the FINDER Menu bar.....So those 6 months of fruitless searches and weeding of itty bitty files is gone, and now I know about this folder. I see it is HUGE (at least it is for my 250GB factory HDD). Obviously, I go through the folders inside this hidden libarary and, alas, I find the GIANT! There is one called "MobileSync" (obviously how I ended up reading all of ya'lls posts here and why I'm posting what I think is a question) that has somehow taken up 72 Gigs of space on my computer unbeknownst to me......Well you could give me the benefit of the doubt, I did know something was going on behind the curtain. So, while it's fresh, here's a new Wrinkle:
/Users/*MYNAME*/Library/Application Support/MobileSync (I believe the folder you speak of) is 72.GB large. And I read every post on this thread (except the PC ones), and it seems y'all are telling me that the MobileSync folder is a backup of your phone created, accessed, ammended/used by itunes during the backup part of the synching process. Do I have all that right?
OK, so where's the chase and how do I cut to it::: I DO have a 64GB iPhone 5...but has at total usage right now of only 17.8GB. (Home Screen | Settings | General | Usage ) - - - and at the top of the "Usage" page the first thing is a heading of "STORAGE", then it has two numbers underneath that. On the left it reads 39.4 GB Available. On the right it says "17.8 GB Used". Under that each App I have on my phone is listed in order of size (descending), what that their respective size/usage is ON my phone (i.e. my top one is "Photos & Camera" 9.9 GB, and you can click on that for further detail if you want.)
Needless to say is even if my phone was jammed with 64 Gigs, why would MobileSync be another 8Gig bigger?
Now, given I sync nothing but photos, videos (that I shoot with the phone), notes, calendar, reminders, and email settings (ONLY 1-way too, pics/vids from phone to computer no vice-versa)...and been doing so for oh going on 7 years and now 3 iphones (no complaints), and given how much of the SSD on said iphone is currently used [or rather UNused], why would iTunes make a 72 Gig backup of a 17 GB iphone???????
Noteworthy is I don't put any music, at all, or videos, podcasts, books, etc. ONTO my iphone, like, ever. Heck, I don't have them on this MBP, either.
So I guess what I'm saying is would somebody be kind enough to decipher what I'm getting at here first, and then clue me in a little if ya can. I'd be much obliged, and forever greatful. And again my apologies on the non-congruence of this post. It was a very rough night here on the east coast.
Also of note: I don't want to move this folder; just make sure it's the right size. First for physical redundancy I want a copy of my iphone backup on my MacBook Pro AND my 1TB USB External (Seagate), I also have my phone. That way if there's a fire and my computer and my laptop go up, I still have ALL of my iPhotos/"pics" and videos that I posses at least 2 different locations on the map... Now, I've been working on 'puters for years and seen many a HDD go, so if my OEM 250GB laptop drive quits, I'll have at the least a backup on time machine. So until I ran out of space to import my stuff from my phone into iPhoto and iMovie, I haven't been able to do my usual routine (use iTunes and back-up the iPhone, then sync it, then open iPhoto and import any new pics, open iMovie and import any new videos, sync with iTunes again, and run Time Machine).
My point with all that is I do want to free this space up, but I don't want to MOVE anything to another drive. I like the physical redundancy. I want to know why there are 1000's of random emails and text files and other malarkey in this folder.....or even worse of if you guys just show me a link to another thread that answers all this and I wouldn't have wasted even more time. I think I"m supposed to write SMH??? or is is ROFL...been too long.
Best, Gregg
