Make sure your computer hard drive has enough space before attempting to update your iPhone!

I made the mistake of updating my iPhone 4 last night to 4.3.3, after almost 40 mins of download, updates and veryfying a warning popped up that there was a problem with my phone and that I had to restore it to the factory settings. I did this, then synced my phone again to get all my data back on it. After almost an hour of faffing, it then tells me that my computer didn't have enough space to peform the back up and I ended up losing all my contacts, apps and worse of all, my photos!!!
Why on earth did a warning not come up in the first place that there was not enough room to backup my iPhone onto my hard drive (which is a Power Mac G5 I might add) before it started to update or back it up!
Contacts are easy to get back, music can be uploaded again, apps I can get back from the app store but my photos are gone and they are the things that are irreplacable. I find the whole process of using iTunes and pain in the a*%e and I'm sure I'm not the only person who has had their iPhone wiped and I won't be the last.
So, a warning to all, you have to manually check you have enough space on your hard drive before you plug your iPhone into your computer or you'll lose everything.

Another warning to all is to maintain backups of any data you care about.

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