Planning on getting a new iPhone but when I tried to backup my current one on our computer it is telling me I don’t have enough space on the hard drive. Have another internal drive that is empty but can’t figure out how to control where iTunes routes the backup and how to change that.

Got frustrated fighting with that so decided to purchase more cloud space and backup in that manner. Started the process last night and when I woke up 6 hours later I had “about a day” of time remaining for the back up to be complete (live out in the boonies so internet speed is horrendous). Tried going back in and turning off some of the things that were set to backup to see if it helps but it still looks like it will take forever.

Does anyone have experience dealing with this or any possible solutions?

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Posted by ellunchboxo

Gtown

Member since Feb 2009

18779 posts

Posted on 5/31/20 at 7:35 am to La Squared

What’s taking up all the space? Photos, messages?

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Posted by La Squared

Southwest LA

Member since Feb 2012

470 posts

Posted on 5/31/20 at 10:42 am to ellunchboxo

Apps and messages. I went through and dumped a bunch of pics onto the computer so I only have a few hundred on the phone. Went through and cleaned up some messages but still quite a bit on there. Right now I have 46 GB of data on the phone.

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Posted by Duckismyspiritanimal

Cupertino, CA

Member since Apr 2017

173 posts

Posted on 5/31/20 at 12:10 pm to La Squared

You can now transfer data directly between devices with Quick Start LINK

This post was edited on 5/31/20 at 12:12 pm

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Posted by alphamicro

Shreveport

Member since Mar 2012

539 posts

Posted on 6/1/20 at 1:11 pm to Duckismyspiritanimal

quote:
You can now transfer data directly between devices with Quick Start

Absolutely painless. Went from a 6+ to the SE2 last month and used Quick Start, no problems whatsoever (except for forgetting to pair the new phone, same name as the old phone, to Bluetooth in my car).

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