HT201210 iOS7 update saying not enough free space on computer to backup iPhone???

I keep trying to update to iOS7 and when my macbook extracts data and goes to backup it keeps saying I dont have enough free space on my computer.  I have literally deleted EVERYTHING.  My HD says I have 54Gig of free space available.  Deleted my last iphone backup.  Everything is up to date software wise.  Restarted Computer and all.  I have about 30Gig on iphone 5.  I just dont get it.  simply deleting my last iphone backup should have given me enough free space to do new backup/update.  Frustrating. 

It appears that your computer's hard disk is almost full. On the computer go to Apple menu and click on About This Mac and then click on Storage in the top bar of that window. Near the top it will show "xx.xx GB free of xx.xx GB"  If the numbers confirm that it is nearly full then you will need to free up some space on the drive.

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