Restore iphone backup

Hello. I need to restore my iPhone backup. I do not ever remember password protecting my sync/backup. The restore is asking for a password. I do not know what to do.

I do not know what to do.
You cannot used the encrypted backup without knowing the password.
Try to remember, if you don't, this is a security feature and cannot be bypassed.
If you can't remember the password and want to start again, you must perform a full software restore and choose set up as a new device when iTunes prompts you to select the backup from which to restore.

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I am using iPhone 4S and my phone went to recovery mode while updating iOS 8.1
Phone got started after a while and I am having backup of the phone in iTunes as well but unfortunately, I am not able to restore the backup!
I have copied the backup from %appdata% -> Roaming to my external hard disk!
So, is there any way to restore it from a new laptop while using my external hard disk?
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i dont have a backup copy from my old computer
Really? Why would you do that?
You can transfer itunes purchases from your iphone to your comptuer. Without syncing: File>Transfer Purchases
You should import any pics taken with iphoen to the new computer, as you would with any other digital camera.
You can e-mail the pics that you synced to the iphone to yourself. They will not be of the original quality.
If you enter one unique contact and calendar entry on the new comptuer, then when you sync, you should get the option ot merge the data.
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Today I've decided to restore my iPhone to factory defaults. I would like to backup the entire phone, so when I've initiated the resture I also initiated the backup. Backup was successfull and the restore began.
Restoring went without difficulties, then when I've gotten the choice to restore the backup and click to start it, it started to complain about my harddrive not having enough backup space to finish the restore. I thought that was weird, because the backup should already be on my PC, right? But what the heck, it's not the first time iTunes makes me do weird jumps, I'll free up some disk space (I'll admit, there was only a few GB's left). Done that, I try to restore from my backup. But... it was nowhere to be found?!! There was a new backup that iTunes made of the clean install, but all the old backups are gone?!?!
I've searched my user directory (C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync) folder in the hope that they're still there and iTunes is just being a big baby, but they weren't there.
Now I find myself sitting here with an iPhone clean install with no settings backed up and lost about 300 photo's/video's. I'm already fearing the worst, but I'm still gonna ask it here: is there any chance getting any data back???
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Restore iPhone backup from somewhere else?

I'm using iTunes on my Macbook Air to access my iPhone. I have created a backup from my iPhone in there.
I was wondering how it is possible to restore that backup from any other Mac computers, like my iMac at home?

You asked whether the backup created with itunes on your Macbook Air would be accessible on your othe Mac computers and I answered that it would not be. The backup for is kept in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ Now you are asking a deferrent question about having ht ebackup on an external device... for that read this https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3421834?start=0&tstart=0

Error: "not enough space to restore iPhone backup" but..8+gb free

Hello,
I have an iPhone 4 running ios 7.0.6. Since it's pretty slow I decided to try backup&restore. Opened iTunes (updated at the latest version yesterday), created a backup (took only a couple of mins, while it used to take dozens at least. Not sure if this is a good thing since the progress bar didn't show the step from 1 to 7 but only a continuos progress bar with no caption but "backing up"), hitted the "restore backup" button, but a couple of minutes later a pop up said "Can't restore your backup because there's not enough free space on the iPhone" (or something similar). The iPhone rebooted as usual.
I saw tons of discussions with this topic but the problem is I have almost 9 gb of free space in a 32gb total capacity!
What can I do?
Thanks for your help,
Andrea

Sorry I missed that important bit of detail.
I would try the following:
Uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes completely, then trying to restore from backup. (You may want to follow their guide to uninstalling iTunes and related applications since there's a specific sequence to that. More here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1925 )
Alternatively, and this may take longer but I've found it helpful in the past, try restore to factory settings once and then, after activating your iPhone and logging in as you, try restore from backup, but from the backup from before your iOS update of course.

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I have just created a new iPHone in my iTunes it actually the same (1st generation iPHone) but I have updated to 2.0 and in the iTunes instead of restoring to original backup that I did before upgrading. I have selected to create a new Iphone. Now I have new iPHone shows up in iTunes but it's missing all of my camera photos and SMS, call history and favorites, and I'm sure I will find more things that are not on this new iPhone.
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How do I go back and upload the backup from the old 1.1.4 Iphone into this new one that I have created in iTunes

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~Lyssa

Restore your new iPod from the old device's backup.
If any application's progress or settings don't transfer, this is most likely the fault of the developer and you'll need to contact him/her for what to do.
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Restoring iphone backup

Yesterday i had to have my iphone 3g replaced - not a prob as I had a backup so whilst instore I handed over my wiped iphone.
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The password to password protect your iPhone's backup can be anything including your Apple ID password - it doesn't have to be your Apple ID password.
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Hello joefromnm,
The following article goes into detail over the process of restoring another phone's backup to a new phone.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109
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Restoring iphone backup from itunes account with multiple phones.

Hi, I wonder if anyone can please help.
Problem as follows:
Backed up/synced both my wifes and my iphone 4 to the same itunes account on Macbook. Wifes phone gets stolen, so get myself new iphone 5 and new Macbook. Managed to set up and get my data onto new phone without any problems, so all sorted.
I now want to pass on my old iphone 4 to my wife, but I cant restore the back up from her stolen phone on the old Macbook as itunes seems to only recognize and associates this phone with its last back up containing my data. Is there anyway that I can restore from the stolen phones backed up data? I have tried restoring the phone to factory settings, but then I still only get the option to restore from that phones original back up.
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Yes it is possible. Just log in on both phones using the same iTunes account info.
As far as synching goes, iTunes remembers the info you want synch'ed on each phone separately.
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I had a iPhone 5 32GB that I recently lost. Because Sprint didn't have the replacement plan at the time of purchase, I'm out of a phone. I have a backup that contains my photos and videos (more important than the music) before my phone was lost. I do remember when I did the backup on a friends PC computer (encrypted) I'm still able to view the backup file. Is there a way I can take that backup file and copy it to my macbook without loosing or damaging anything? Are there any 3rd party apps out there someone can recommend?
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Stupidly, I deleted my primary account on my iPhone that contained my contacts and calendar. I don't currently subscribe to MobileMe. I took advantage of the free service when I bought my phone, but decided not to subscribe as I synch my iPhone to my computer and back up my computer using a hard drive connected with Time Machine. Unfortunately, when I stopped using MobileMe, a synch to my iTunes wiped out all my contact data in my Address Book on my computer and my calendar. Therefore, all my most current information was on my iPhone.
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Select the folder that contains the .mdbackup files and use Get Info for the folder to check the date the backup was updated. I would forget about trying to extract individual .mdbackup files and transfer the entire folder to the same location on your computer's hard drive - with iTunes quit before doing so.
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Does Time Machine include a backup of your Address Book and iCal on your Mac? If so, it will be much easier and faster to restore the Address Book and iCal on your Mac from your Time Machine backup.

Can't restore individual iPhone backup file via Time Machine

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I was hoping someone here might be able to assist me. I seem to have lost my iPhone backup file, but when I access the backup files in time capsule under user, in library under mobilesync, I can't even make it that far in time capsule, all I get to is a sparse image file of the username, is there a way I can access these files without a complete restore?
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If you mean you're using the Finder, that's not how to restore from Time Machine.
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