iTunes clogged drive c, how to clean it. How to incredibly effectively clean system drive C of junk on Windows

Owners of Apple devices have always had the same problem. It lies in the fact that the space on drive C, with each connection to iTunes, becomes less and less.

It seems like you can’t refuse backup copies, but what if something happens to your phone. But backups really take up a lot of space, especially if you have multiple devices.

Therefore, today I will tell you how to find them on your computer.

I know two ways to delete backups:

Uninstall via iTunes

iTunes has a feature for deleting backups. You just have to launch it, go Edit — Settings.


Now go to the tab Devices and see a list of our backups. Select the one you need and delete it.

Removing via drive C

As you probably already guessed, you can directly delete backups. That is, go to the folder where they are stored and delete.

To do this we go to Start and click on username.

Now you see a lot of folders and we need a folder called AppData. It's not there because it's hidden so that no one else accidentally wanders into your backups.

To make the folder visible, click on the top Arrange — Folder and search options — View — Hidden files and folders — Show hidden files, folders and drives.

If this is difficult to do, then go to the article and there in the paragraph Hiding invisible folders everything is described in detail.

After completing the procedures, we have a folder AppData.


Next we go to these folders Roaming - Apple Computer - MobileSync - Backup. If you do not have Windows 7, then go to this site, your operating system will be found there -> Folder path. When you go to the destination folder, you see a lot of files.

To understand what exactly to delete, just look at Date modified. Accordingly, if today is the date, then the backup was performed on the current day.

Conclusion

Delete all files except the last two backups, you never know what might happen.

Perhaps this is all I wanted to tell you about.

And I almost forgot, I finally saw a little on this topic:

xxx: Empty the trash, freed up 90 gigs...
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For most of us, the past decade has been marked by increasing disk space in our computers. The volume of hard drives grew, their prices fell. However, many are still surprised by the message from the system that there is practically no disk space left.

The popularity of digital media content has led to the fact that people began to store huge amounts of digital videos, photographs, and musical compositions. In addition, today there is a significant increase in the number of fast, but not yet very large SSD drives. Even a very modest media library iTunes or iPhoto is capable of filling almost the entire 64- or 128-gigabyte drive of an “air” laptop. That's why today we're offering 7 simple but often effective ways to free up disk space on your Mac.

1. Clean your download lists.

It won't take us much time and effort to fix this. Just call the context menu Finder, select the item in it “Go To Folder” and dial ~/Library/Mail Downloads, and clean out all the accumulated trash. At the same time, there is a chance that the network downloads folder takes up a fair amount of megabytes, or even gigabytes. Look there, save (if you haven’t already done so) everything you need, and erase the rest with a clear conscience.

2. Delete unused versions of video files.

3. Use the iTunes Match service.

4. Use Dropbox or another cloud file storage service.

If you have any personal dislike specifically for Dropbox- dozens of other similar services are at your service, the most popular - 4shared, box.net, Windows Live SkyDrive, the project is in beta version Yandex disk, there are dozens of them. By the way, about the Yandex disk - don’t be confused by the fact that it works only by invitation for now - the dear editors received an invite no more than an hour after sending the request.

5. Delete old iPhone/iPod/iPad backups.

To find old backups, launch iTunes, select the menu item "Preferences" and click on the icon "Devices". You will see a list of all the backups that iTunes managed to make while working with your gadget. If you are sure that you do not need them (and most users really do not need them), feel free to delete them.

There is one more thing related to your portable gadget, which often eats up a lot of free gigabytes (especially if you regularly update the firmware of your device). Yes, these are downloaded software update files. iTunes downloads them, but does not delete them after use, wasting your disk space. Removing them can free up a significant number of gigabytes, and if you need them again, iTunes will download them again from Apple's update servers.

So let's go to ~/Library/iTunes/, and look for the folder there iPhone Software Updates, iPad Software Updates, and iPod Software Updates. Feel free to delete them and enjoy another portion of free gigabytes.

6. Find large files you don't use.

Let us briefly recall what the point is. The program allows you to scan connected drives and displays a sector-by-sector diagram of the file system. The “thicker” the folder, the larger the corresponding sector. This way you can see at a glance where to dig for large files.

7. Use local network storage - Time Capsule, for example.

How do you monitor the free space on your hard drives?

Written on the basis of personal experience, for some it may be elementary or not significant, but I had a fair amount of trouble with these and decided to share my experience, comments are welcome))

- The other day I was filling my Apple phone with content and ran into an unexpected problem - lack of space on the C: drive of my laptop. Of course, most have powerful machines and such a problem will seem insignificant, but still, maybe someone will find the information useful!

The problem was the following, I have an Asus EEE 900 laptop, through it I flashed and uploaded content to the iPhone, the size of the C drive in the netbook is 3.75 gig. with XP and programs installed, the necessary netfront-3.5, there was 1.5 gigs of free space left. After I started adding programs and games, the message “not enough space on drive C” appeared. It turns out that when you add files to the iTunes library, it automatically writes them to its own folder on drive C!
That is, with my 1.5 gigs it became problematic to upload about 7 gigabytes of information; when deleting files via iTunes, they were deleted when synchronized on the iPhone, it turned out to be a vicious circle, you need to upload content, but there is no space.
Reinstalling tuna on drive D was not successful; all files were regularly uploaded to drive C.
After tormenting myself all day, I finally found a way out! When adding files, their name is written to the library, and during subsequent synchronization, the files on the iPhone and in tuna are compared, and if something is different, the files are erased or added, therefore, if you upload files to tuna, synchronize them with the phone, and then delete the files from the backup storage without erasing it from the media library, we can thus free up space for the next files, and by gradually adding we can solve the problem of lack of space!!!

And so in tuna, open the file in the upper right corner and click add folder to media library, select the folder with programs and games and add everything en masse to tuna (make sure that the size of the folder matches the size of the free space), as a result the files will open in it, synchronize them and they will be added to the iPhone! Now we go along the path C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Music in the Mobile Applications folder there are programs and games, we delete them, this frees up the space we need and we can add the remaining programs, we can do the same with music, it is located on the same path only in the iTunes Music folder!!!

Written on the basis of personal experience, for some it may be elementary or not significant, but I had a fair amount of trouble with these and decided to share my experience, comments are welcome))">

Storing valuable documents on the system drive (usually the C: drive) is not safe. Many people know this from their own bitter experience, since the system disk quickly lives out its life, often deteriorates, and suffers most from virus attacks, which is especially not a supernatural phenomenon in the Windows OS family (unfortunately or fortunately, I am not a MAC OS user) . But in any case, it is better to keep everything valuable on an external drive, or at least on another partition. Fortunately, operating systems allow you to change the location of system folders by specifying a new path in their properties.

It is also advisable to keep your iTunes files on a different drive (partition) so that you don’t have to transfer them back and forth every time you move the operating system, or to avoid tearing your hair out if the system drive fails. We are talking not only about downloaded applications and games, music, movies, books, etc., but you also need to take into account backup copies of devices, which, depending on their number and the volume of the content itself, can be from 10 to 50 GB and more. This manual will also be useful for those who want to transfer data to another computer.

TRANSFER YOUR ITUNES MEDIA LIBRARY

MEDIA LIBRARY stores downloaded applications, music, movies, your videos, ringtones and books. By default, the files are located at:
c:\Users\(USER NAME)\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media - (USER NAME) the name of your account folder.

If you have already changed the location of the My Music folder by specifying a different address in the Location tab in the properties of this folder, then all files will be saved there. But this must be done before installing iTunes, or you will also have to manually change the address in the iTunes media folder location field by going to the Edit menu => Settings, in the Advanced tab. If you check the Copy to iTunes media folder box when adding to your media library, the program will copy all music files to this folder; otherwise, by default, it will simply play them from the original location.
Better let's start from the beginning and do it in order. Let's say you have new iTunes installed, after reinstalling the system, or changing your computer. Or you yourself decided to move the iTunes folder from the above address to another drive. In all cases, if you immediately launch iTunes, it will create a new, empty library file.

The iTunes root folder contains library files and various folders, which also contains the iTunes Media folder where your applications, downloaded movies, books, ringtones, or maybe music are located. For example, you moved the iTunes folder itself to another drive and a new address, for example: D:\Itunes.

1. Launch iTunes as follows. We press and hold the SHIFT key on the keyboard and double-click on the iTunes shortcut on the desktop, and instead of the usual launch of the program, a window will appear asking you to select the path to the media library or create a new one (do not release SHIFT until the window appears).
2. Click on the Select library button, and in the Open iTunes library window, select the iTunes folder and find the iTunes Library.itl file in it. iTunes will think a little, check the files and open with all your data. Just, just in case, check in the settings whether the media library address is specified correctly.

iTunes was unable to update iPhone "iPhone" due to insufficient free space on this computer.
Deleting files and emptying the Recycle Bin will free up additional space.

Usually, after such notifications appear, the session of creating a backup or updating the iPhone and iPad ends, after which I begin to delete unnecessary programs, music and movies from my computer in order to free up space for the insatiable.

But just the other day, having encountered a similar problem, I realized that there was nothing left to delete from the computer, no matter how much I deleted and emptied the recycle bin, iTunes still did not have enough space. After a little analysis of the contents of the logical drive, it became clear that all the space was occupied by the iTunes folders itself. It turned out that for several years the iTunes program had been creating backup copies of the iPhone and putting everything in its own folders. So we decided to delete iTunes backups from our computer, thereby freeing up disk space.

Delete all iTunes backups

If you don’t yet know where iTunes stores backup copies of iPhones and iPads, then read the instructions - “”. Before we started deleting the backups, we determined their total size - on our computer, all the backups occupied about 5 gigabytes, which is how much space will be freed up after deletion.

First, we delete backups in the iTunes program Settings, where backups of all devices are stored. It’s impossible to delete everything here at once, so we select and delete them one by one. If you need any copies, please leave them.

It happens that the backups are deleted in the iTunes settings, but there is still not enough space on the computer, then we go and delete all the folders with the backups manually. On our Windows XP computer we go through the following path:
C:\Documents and Settings\iBobr\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

It is in the Backup folder that all folders with backups made earlier in iTunes are saved, select all folders and delete them. If you use another operating system on your computer, then the path to storing your backups can be found in the link above, which explains how to create backups. After deleting the folders, we empty the trash, and our computer gets additional free space.

These instructions may also be useful for those who have little free space on their computer; in such cases, after uninstalling iTunes, you can delete the entire Apple Computer folder; it happens that it remains after uninstallation.