I formatted my hdd and forgot to copy my iphone back up to an external hdd

I formatted my hdd and forgot to copy my iphone back up to an external hdd i want to get my iphone back up back any help

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How do I copy photos that I had stored on my iPhone back to my computer?
This is what has happened:
My hard drive recently died.
My TimeMachine iPhoto library was corrupt after the restore and, after I opened an earlier backup, some photos disappeared from my iPhoto library. Luckily I had transfered some of these missing photos to my iPhone.
Only the latest camera roll from my iPhone shows up in the import window in iPhoto.
When I click the sync button for photos in the iTunes window, it warns me that all photos in the iPhone will be wiped and replaced with the new iPhoto library (which is old/incomplete since a recent hard drive failure) but there is no way to merge photos on both devices nor to transfer my photos from my iPhone to my computer...
Anyone know how to get photos from the iPhone to my computer (not just the last roll, which can be imported easily when phone is plugged in)???

There are no options really to get access to the photo files unless you use some 3rd party tool that we cannot help with here.
Also note, when you synced photos over, they got "optimized" for the iPhone (made smaller) so even if you got them off, they will not be the original quality.
One option you can do is go to your photos, when looking at the thumbnail view of them tap the icon in bottom left (arrow looking icon).
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Do NOT use the Share option (as that will make even smaller copies to email). Instead when done selecting all the ones you want, choose the Copy command at the bottom.
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Hello, this is my first time posting a question to the apple support community.
I have a bit of a (possibly unique) problem. Due to space limitations on my internal SSD, I have moved my iTunes library to an external HDD. However iTunes still backs up my iOS devices locally (~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup). This is causing a problem as it is making my SSD very full, the only way to remedy this is to remove old backups manually. Is there anyway to backup these iOS devices to the external HDD where my iTunes library is?
Thanks very much!

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Is there a way via the Terminal to just force my Mac to move my Itunes files to the external HDD?
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Did you follow these instructions CLOSELY:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
Don’t delete or move .itdb or .xml or any other files till it is working on your other location.
Hope this helps,
ken

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When i bought my mac, it was coming with Mac OSX 10.5.6 Leopard.
I want to remove everything and start my mac from beginning again using Mac OSX 10.5.6 Snow Leopard directly. is it possible?
I already bought the Snow Leopard DVD.
Can i just directly re-install and format my mac using this Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD?
Or i need to format it first using old Mac OSX 10.5.6 DVD,then after that upgrade to Mac OSX 10.6?
Please help me guys..
Thanks a lot..

stew pit wrote:
Can i just directly re-install and format my mac using this Mac OSX 10.6 Snow >Leopard DVD?
Definitely yes.
I know that you know that there are two kind of installs for Leo: upgrade and erase and install. In principle, there would be little difference between the two. Many here say that upgrading, versus erasing and installing, is the superior procedure provided that one's prior installation is in very good condition. Others feel differently. I say just do what you prefer. My bet is that percentage-wise those getting good installs from an erase and install, particularly if all apps are reinstalled, rather than migrated, is higher than for upgrade--but probably not appreciably higher.
The processes leading to the final outcome should lead to a good outcome in either case. But, things can go wrong either way. I am not going to try to elaborate much on the specific ways that things could go wrong either way. But, for the most part, they would have to do with the way migration works and the migration technique used (if used), in the case of erase and install, and the existence of problems in the system existing prior to installation in the case of an upgrade.
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6. Erase your drive Mac extended (journaled).
7. Quit Disk Utility and continue your installation.
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Holy Cow! Seven days to copy my iPhone library to a new external HD?

Wow - I've just begun to move my iPhoto Library File (about 80GB - over 12,000 photos and videos) from the internal HD of my black MacBook running Lion, to a new external WesternDigital My Book with 1TB of space. I did check the info for the new drive in Lion and it says that it is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
It looks like the iPhoto Library file is just one big file (not a folder filled with photo and video files).
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My black MacBook is a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of 667 Mhz DDR SDRAM and I'm running Lion 10.7.1
I've now gone from 7 days to 9 days... :-(
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Thanks in advance ... Tom

1. The Finder is a liar and notoriously inaccurate at these kinds of estimates. Yes, migrating this amount of data will take a while - just how much depends on a number of factors - but we're talking hours and not days.
2. Since iPhoto 7 (iLife 08) the old iPhoto Library Folder is a Package File. This is simply a folder that looks like a file in the Finder. Inside the package are lots of files and folders.
Regards
TD

Backing up files to external HDD, time machine? Super Duper?

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how many drives do you have running?
Currently have 6 machines and a total of 21 drives running.
In two machines I use TM and SD! backup, in the other four I use SD! only.
I've never fallen back/used a TM backup, but constantly use SD! backups.
The performance benefit of running a SD! clone is one main reason.
When would it be appropriate to run SP or CCC?
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In other machines, I run Smart Update once a week.
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