Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek. Prior to his current role, Jason spent several years as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on tips, tricks, and advice on everything from kitchen gadgets to home improvement. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the site to ensure readers have the most up-to-date information on everything from operating systems to gadgets.
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Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. You can use the same method to back up the most recent backup on your external drive. If, for example, there are multiple backups of your iPhone and you only want to keep the most recent backup, then you could keep the backup folder with your iPhone UDID alphanumeric name (the most current backup) and delete all the older backups with the UDID + time stamp. If you want to free up space on your computer, you can safely delete any backup folder you no longer need. There is no mechanism in the Windows version of iTunes to interact with the backups beyond simply calling them up when restoring your device to a previous state. If you're on Windows, the only way to delete or copy an iTunes backup is to go to the backup directory we mentioned in the previous section, check the folder names for your device's UDID, and do as you wish with the files. Windows and OS X: Manually Delete or Copy the Folders
With that in mind, most people will want to do a little spring cleaning and purge old backups. So if you have 12GB of data on your phone during backup #1, and 12GB of data on your phone during backup #2, the sum total of the backups is 24GB-not 12GB + the small changes.
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How to Delete, Move, or Back Up the BackupsĪs we noted earlier, these backups are not incremental, so each backup is a full device backup.
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