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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1860448" data-attributes="member: 396914">The USB thing was part of the issue with iMazing. I kept getting a message that the USB connection was bad and that iMazing could not connect. I use the same port for many USB purposes with zero errors. I replaced the cable with a brand new one from Apple, no change. I moved to a different USB port, no change. iMazing just seemed unable/unwilling to connect to my iPhone. Finder, btw, worked perfectly, did the backups, syncing, updating that iMazing claimed to do. The final straw for me was that the backup of my iPhone, which has 512 GB of storage, with 160 GB in use, almost completely filled a 1TB drive for ONE backup. Close to 700 GB space taken for ONE backup of 160 GB of data. Figuring something had to have gone wrong, I deleted it and started over. Same result. iMazing got uninstalled that day. Between false error reports on fully functioning hardware and quadrupling of space for a backup, iMazing is definitely off my list, and my iDevices.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1860448, member: 396914"] The USB thing was part of the issue with iMazing. I kept getting a message that the USB connection was bad and that iMazing could not connect. I use the same port for many USB purposes with zero errors. I replaced the cable with a brand new one from Apple, no change. I moved to a different USB port, no change. iMazing just seemed unable/unwilling to connect to my iPhone. Finder, btw, worked perfectly, did the backups, syncing, updating that iMazing claimed to do. The final straw for me was that the backup of my iPhone, which has 512 GB of storage, with 160 GB in use, almost completely filled a 1TB drive for ONE backup. Close to 700 GB space taken for ONE backup of 160 GB of data. Figuring something had to have gone wrong, I deleted it and started over. Same result. iMazing got uninstalled that day. Between false error reports on fully functioning hardware and quadrupling of space for a backup, iMazing is definitely off my list, and my iDevices. [/QUOTE]

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