Iphone backup not working because not enough free space

Hi all,
itunes won't put the backup from my iphone 4 onto my iphone 5 because it says: not enough space on iphone, but there is!
My iphone 4 used 10 GB of space and on my iphone 5 there is 13 GB left. Who can help me with this one?

I thought I got it working, but after I performed a backup on my MacBook, it stopped working again. I've just started backing my phone up to iCloud. Works fine.
But what happens now, is every now and then my iPhone fails to sync over WiFi.

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  • ITunes cannot back up this iPhone because not enough free space is available on this computer

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    Hey yshabir,
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2529
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  • ITunes could not back up the iPhone because not enough free space is available on this computer

    iTunes 11.0.1 (22)
    Mac OS X 10.6.8
    218.83 GB available
    iOS 6.0.2
    iPhone5
    I get this error occasionally since getting the iPhone5 in October. My last successful back up to thei Mac was yesterday. Tonight, no backup.
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      - I have 2.1 _terabytes_ of free space on my Drobo[*] which contains my iTunes library.
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    [*] As far as the OS is concerned, the volume has 3.22Tb free, but it is backed by 2.10Tb of actual available space. In any case, "a whole heck of a lot".

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    iphone says not enough free icloud storage for backup, but shows 2.3GB free. Why?

    Thanks for replying.
    Sorted now- thanks

  • HT1414 I just got a replacement iPhone 5 (64MB) for one with a cracked face, and tried to restore it.  Got an error message saying the iTunes could not restore the iPhone because not enough free space is available on the iPhone.  Now what?

    I just replaced my iPhone 5 because of a cracked face.  I backed up the old phone to iTunes.  When I tried to restore my data off of iTunes to the new phone, I got an error message saying that iTunes could not restore the iPhone because not enough free space is available on the new iPhone.  Now what?
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    I've done a restore.. The phone was completely wiped back to factory settings.. It then tells me there isn't enough space on the phone to restore from back up? How when the phone is empty?!

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