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TSirise.ufall
post Nov 17 2019, 01:32 PM, updated 5y ago

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Dear Pros,

I seriously need your help! I cant restore backup from my itunes and the error messages keep popping up.

And i noticed that my SSD system drive has low disk space. I cleaned up some.

At first i saw that i have more than 10GB of space. But after i tried to restore backups a few times but all failed, my system drive has now shown no more space.

I suspect it is the temporary files that "eat up" all my spaces.

I do a quick check. This apple folder is taking more than 200GB, i am not sure what is it for.

Anyone can advise how to clean up some disk space by deleting unused apple files?? I do want to protect the backup files though.

Please help!!




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kingkingyyk
post Nov 17 2019, 01:59 PM

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QUOTE(irise.ufall @ Nov 17 2019, 01:32 PM)
Dear Pros,

I seriously need your help! I cant restore backup from my itunes and the error messages keep popping up.

And i noticed that my SSD system drive has low disk space. I cleaned up some.

At first i saw that i have more than 10GB of space. But after i tried to restore backups a few times but all failed, my system drive has now shown no more space.

I suspect it is the temporary files that "eat up" all my spaces.

I do a quick check. This apple folder is taking more than 200GB, i am not sure what is it for.

Anyone can advise how to clean up some disk  space by deleting unused apple files?? I do want to protect the backup files though.

Please help!!
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No way to tell as it is managed by the program itself. Suggest you to move the entire Apple folder to HDD and make a symlink back to C drive.
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post Nov 17 2019, 02:08 PM

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How big is your SSD?

Assuming you are using Win 10, Win 10 always has minor updates and major updates, they're all eating up spaces.

p/s empty your system Recycle Bin will free up some space.

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TSirise.ufall
post Nov 18 2019, 08:26 AM

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QUOTE(kingkingyyk @ Nov 17 2019, 01:59 PM)
No way to tell as it is managed by the program itself. Suggest you to move the entire Apple folder to HDD and make a symlink back to C drive.
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May i know how do i do that without losing my backup??
TSirise.ufall
post Nov 18 2019, 08:30 AM

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QUOTE(WebWalker @ Nov 17 2019, 02:08 PM)
How big is your SSD?

Assuming you are using Win 10, Win 10 always has minor updates and major updates, they're all eating up spaces.

p/s empty your system Recycle Bin will free up some space.
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My SSD system drive has only 500GB, and half of the storage has been taken up by itunes alone... Now i left with around 1000mb only... sweat.gif

1000mb is just not enuf for me to do anything. Basically i cant restore my transfer, and i cant even use my photoshop to edit a photo.... doh.gif
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post Nov 18 2019, 10:04 AM

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QUOTE(irise.ufall @ Nov 18 2019, 08:30 AM)
My SSD system drive has only 500GB, and half of the storage has been taken up by itunes alone... Now i left with around 1000mb only...  sweat.gif

1000mb is just not enuf for me to do anything. Basically i cant restore my transfer, and i cant even use my photoshop to edit a photo....  doh.gif
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Just remove your existing backups in iTunes. Apple is crap to let power user knows where they put the backups.
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post Nov 22 2019, 12:53 PM

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QUOTE(irise.ufall @ Nov 18 2019, 08:26 AM)
May i know how do i do that without losing my backup??
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this step is for windows OS ,which you have:

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The original location of the Backups is in a folder called MobileSync

This folder is located in: C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

And to do move this folder's location, you will have to:

    Copy the folder to the new location (for example at the root of an external hard disk drive (HDD)
    Go to the orinal folder location C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\
    Delete the folder "Backup" within or rename it "BackupOld" to keep it
    Press Shift+Right Click to open a Command window from that location
    Type the following command

    mklink /J “%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup” “<Your External HDD>:\iTunes Backup”

    Close Command prompt
    Launch a backup, see if it has been properly located and iTunes sees is as the latest
TSirise.ufall
post Nov 22 2019, 01:38 PM

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QUOTE(freddy manson @ Nov 22 2019, 12:53 PM)
this step is for windows OS ,which you have:
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Woww thanks bro!

I see if i am able to get it done by following the steps.

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post Nov 23 2019, 09:32 AM

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QUOTE(irise.ufall @ Nov 22 2019, 01:38 PM)
Woww thanks bro!

I see if i am able to get it done by following the steps.

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save this for future. can be useful for other things too!
TSirise.ufall
post Nov 27 2019, 09:23 AM

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QUOTE(freddy manson @ Nov 23 2019, 09:32 AM)
save this for future. can be useful for other things too!
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Thank you so much bro.

Last weekend i tried to uninstall my games from steam to free up some spaces to try to restore my backup again before trying your methods.

I free up almost 100GB just to prepare for the restoration works. And it took almost 60GB at the end... sweat.gif

This itunes alone has taken easily 300GB of my C-drive... I am going to uninstall it and install at my normal hdd instead.
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post Dec 1 2019, 04:13 PM

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QUOTE(irise.ufall @ Nov 27 2019, 09:23 AM)
Thank you so much bro.

Last weekend i tried to uninstall my games from steam to free up some spaces to try to restore my backup again before trying your methods.

I free up almost 100GB just to prepare for the restoration works. And it took almost 60GB at the end...  sweat.gif

This itunes alone has taken easily 300GB of my C-drive... I am going to uninstall it and install at my normal hdd instead.
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delete all ur old backups, and only keep 3 of ur recent ones.. i do this foe safekeeping

 

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