My computer says"not enough free space to back up iphone to computer"

i keep recentlyl getting a notice when i connect my iphone 5 (running snow lepoard on my mac) " not enough free space on this computer to backup iphone i have 106gigs of free space, my iphone5 is 64gig help please!!!!

Close iTunes & navigate to:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
and delete everything in that Backup folder, but not the folder itself.

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