Yes, I was thinking a similar solution to Susan’s suggestion. Given the limited space on the Macbook, why not get yourself a sizeable external drive (1TB minimum) and migrate your existing iTunes Library to the external and then you’ll have heaps of space. Also review your Macbook to determine what other things you can offload to an external drive (Photos and other folders perhaps). This will also help with the Macbook operation as Ronni has always said to try to maximise your space available and having <10% of the SSD capacity available is getting pretty light on. I have a 250GB SSD MBP Retina and both my iTunes and Photos app Libraries are on the external (but also included in the Time Machine Backup) so if you’re ok with holding those items externally, then this could be a solution for you.
Regards Pete. > On 14 Jul 2018, at 11:29 am, Susan Hastings <susanhasti...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Gary, why not use her laptop to back up the iPhone directly to an external > HD. You would probably need to have an iTunes library on the external drive, > easy enough to create. Cheers, Susan > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 14 Jul 2018, at 10:50 am, gary dorn <gd...@me.com> wrote: >> >> howdy >> >> my wife iPhone has issues with it, therefore before taking too the apple >> shop for a looksee , we intend to do a backup. >> she currently has it backup to iCloud, however we would also like to get our >> own backup onto a backup disk. >> >> the back up is approx 40 gb >> >> the macbook she uses has only 22 gb free ( 250 gb SSD) >> >> can I backup on different computer ( macpro with 250 GB SSD - 170 GB free) >> and transfer that to the backup disk for safe keeping.? >> >> can iTunes backups be assigned directly to a backup disk? >> >> any thought welcomed. >> >> ps can iCloud backup be completely assured of its security/reliability ? >> >> chow >> Gary Dorn >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
