Eight-hundred and fourty-eight GIGABYTES?!! WTF?!

Miranda Kali (Desperate But Not Serious)

Wha? 848.1 gb? His backup folder is almost a terabyte? Did you misplace a decimal point?

jhlavenka

@utube2007: That depends on the type of high school you're talking about. And what, you never did any homework in high school?

ugar

@nycbjr2: i was wondering about that as well

I'd just

well, I'd have to buy a new window afterwords.

nachobel

you can cut down the sync time by simply right clicking on the phone in the devices menu, select "reset warnings", and then when you sync the next time it will ask you if you want to send the data to apple. Select "don't send".

Cut my 20 minute time down to 2 minutes.

diem

My experience tells me that skipping backup makes the sync much faster, and that when you get a new phone or need to use your backup, iTunes fucks it up and says it's unusable anyway... and all your apps sync, and contacts, and music, and videos.... what's the backup for anyway???

dcdttu

@utube2007: 8-3? shit that woulda been nice. Would have felt like afternoon kindergarten.

We went from 6:30 to 2:30.

el0d

Last night, mine took about 4 hrs to sync. A lot of my apps crash often! I am getting tire and sick of this. We pay a lot of money every month for this junk !!!

MaisieLeda

I had slow sync problems on a 1st Gen iPhone. Turns out it was sitting on a mixed USB bus. If you have a USB 1.1 device on the bus, everything runs on that slow bus. I put it on a USB 2.0 devices only setup and backups are about 4 minutes.

With 2.0.2 software, installing apps no longer automatically forces a full backup, so installing an app took about 20 seconds.

It is possible this problem is real, but there are also a lot of variables that need to be removed and rather than making a video of how long it took, you might remove some of those variables.

mmeister

848 gb? did anyone notice his mbair is only 80gb and his imac is 320gb? where is this magical 848gb residing?

nycbjr2

@utube2007: you sir spent way too much time thinking about that...

Jon B.

who the fuck actually uses 74 programs daily? i mean, seriously? that's ridiculous.

TonyRockyHorror

@utube2007: Seriously?

stonefry

MacPro 7GB Ram, RAID 0 hard drives, nothing else running
latest itunes, latest OS X leopard update,
backing up 70 apps.... 4.5 hrs. Nothing else on it.

I can back up 300 gigs on my Firewire800 drive faster than I can backup 1GB or less on my iPhone... sad.

domerdel

@nystreetfilms: ROFL

ugar

Since when is 8 hours a full day of highschool; most high schools and schools in general are 5, 6 or 6.15 hours or 8-3, 8:30-3:30, 8:45-3:15, 9-3:15 not 7-3 or 8-4 where do you get the 8 hour highschool from

utube2007

I have a full 16gig iPhone 3G with only 300 megs to spare. I have 3 tv shows, 3 movies and 9 gigs of music. Mobile Me with 80 contacts, 4 email accounts, 33 applications (aside from the standard pre-loaded) and 10 websites on the home screen. It takes me between 5 and 10 minutes to backup my phone on a C2D MacBook Pro. I do it at least twice a week.

Mayor McRib

@nystreetfilms: lmfao. Nice post

NeoXY

You know, I have had a 1st gen since it debuted and its been a great phone.

Just recently, like in the last month, this POS has been acting weirder then a tranny in a tabernacle. And just this week, out of F'n no where, all my contacts go bye bye.

In my favorites panel, its just numbers.

So Im like, whatever, just plug the bastard into my mac and resyncho... nope. Nothing. no good. Had to restore, and the last time I did an archive was in April. Lost a couple of good numbers in there I'll tell you.

So yeah. Apple. Watch yo ass. Its about to be broken off cause you're not holding up yo end of the bargain: we pay more money and you make the shit work.

Shit aint working.

nystreetfilms

Bring it in to Apple and get a new phone?

OGHowie

wow, that sucks.

Mr.DuckSauce

8 hrs? wtf? I have like 60 or so apps, and a couple hundred contacts, and like 4GB free on my iPhone and It takes me like 20 minutes tops to do a full backup????!!!

Anyone else have Much quicker than this?
L.

Faslane66

He should just disable backups. Yea, if he has to restore he'll have to redo all his settings, but that's a heck of a lot faster than 8 hours.

Mr. Black aka Thomas @ Sanctuary93.com

this computer needs a screensaver.... seriously

puntai

the password is not 'password'

forrman

the password is gizmodo...kind of obvious as my first guess

warknight10

pass: gizmodo

puntai

It says I need a password to see the video...

steveyun

what he said ^

puntai

password protected video?

Buzzed

@Geraldo:
Sadly enough, it was even faster before 2.02. But based on some of you guys, I won't complain. Two things that I have noticed lately is that GPS only won't work correctly with locating me (even with 5 bars like I have at home). I add back wifi and BOOM it works fine. It's also pretty common for an app. that updates directly on the iPhone to crash and then work fine. So I just update on the computer and sync from there.

I am guessing that deleted apps might be having an effect on slow sync times too. I would guess that the backup still logs them since it remembers if you had the app before if you try to re-download it.

Mayor McRib

So, wait, his backup was almost a terabyte? His computer can only hold 320GB, and the air even less. Something is clearly going wrong there.

trek1394

@TonyRockyHorror: That's not the point: There's never been any kind of limit mentioned by Apple regarding how many apps a person can use and still maintain functionality. Even worse, if he paid for all or most of them then why shouldn't he be allowed to keep every one of them on there?? It's his money, and not being able to do so would be considered a waste.

rcast1986

I am using my 3G with iTunes 7.7.1 on vista with no problems at all. Sync around 10-15 minutes, 8 gigs of music, 15 apps, everything else syncs over the air.

sprice82

when it says backing up iphone, just click the x to stop it, and it will go on with syncing the rest of your stuff. Was that so hard?

joebobfunguy

Last I checked, it backs up EVERYTHING. I mean, my back up folder has over 4000 files in it. When I say everything, even stupid stuff that you can easily sync without a need of the back up (like associated photos to your contacts)

phi

It's pretty obvious that *something*'s being duplicated in the backup portion, did anyone bother to look at what's being duplicated there?

What's it DOING during the 8 hours? Probalby caught in a loop copying some chunk of data.

Is it fine without apps being added? Did he add one app at a time and see which one's triggering the loop?

UberJumper

@Mayor McRib:
My backup with my XP desktop is seriously messed up -- takes 2 hours at least, not including syncing contacts. I have a 16GB, generally less than 1GB free, about 3GB music I think, 3 movies, 3 TV programs, 19 music videos, 21 video podcasts, 45 apps -- total 6 additional screens (apps and web pages) other than home screen -- rest are web pages, so maybe 140+ icons in addition to home screen.

I don't even bother to time my backups anymore. I just try not to do backups and only to apply changes, which take less than 30 minutes -- those app updates are the things that seem to take forever.

Contacts syncing is with a separate work laptop (XP), and it just seems to sit out there forever. My Blackberry 8700c sync was blazing fast by comparison. Thank god for Exchange and live Calendar updates because I try not to sync with my work laptop anymore.

I know my backup is seriously broken but have no idea if I just need to back off on certain kinds of content. But I can't afford -- for now -- the evening it would take to start to figure this out. My buddy with a 16GB has similar problems.

Geraldo

yeah i think the 848gb thing has to be a decimal error. i think it's either a defective phone (unlikely) or a problem with the usb (is he using a hub? probably since it's an air, is the hub able to handle usb2.0? what if he doesnt use the hub?).

i dont who i hate more apple or apple's customers. probably the later, since i recently became one with a 3G purchase that i kind of regret.

putch

that's okay

it takes me 2 hours to upload maps to my Blackjack II's microSDHC 4GB card....

2 hours for 2GB of stuff ~ 8 hours for 8GB of music?....

taking_this_easy

I couldn't help but laugh at the number of clocks on screen.

mhlaxp

APPLE FAIL

dna

This isn't new. We already know the more apps you have the longer the backup. However, the backup should be sequential. So his next backup should be quick.

However again, iTunes on Vista DOES NOT WORK. It will perform a NEW backup every time and after a few backups, it will STOP backing up. That is to say it still runs through the process (FULL EACH TIME) but you get no backup.

I had to move all my iPhone/iTunes (crap) to work so I can use it on XP.

JEmlay

The backup folder: 9,771 items and 848.1 GB???

That is one heck of a hacked iPhone if it has nearly a terabyte of storage on it..

Then again, 8 hours seems rather speedy if it's moving 848.1 GB of data..

PocketLint

I call fake! No doubt manufactured in that same airplane hangar as NASA's "moon landing" footage was shot in! :-p

hypereric

I like how the temperature is dropping around 1:40 into the clip.

Brandon: 'Come one Apple, the winter is coming already...'
Apple: 'STFU! One sync per year!'

But yeah.... my Treo synced in about 15 seconds (contacts, calendar, apps). Are we moving backwards in time?

future-proof

Jeez, is that think checking the hashes of all the files and validating the digital signatures of all software on a sync? That's an insanely long time.

Joseph

whats the name of that bar at the bottom of the computer that displays the time, date, and weather?

dorylomorphs

Did anyone else expect to see Buck Rogers spinning around and/or thought of Futurama?

"We managed to synch the iPhone, but we took on a lot of clocks."

Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity

awesome song. my backups only take about 30 minutes. am i doing something right, or when i go to restore, am i'm going to be screwed?

eddiesdguy

I just disabled itunes backups. I have better things to do with my time. Its really unbelievable that the backup takes twice as long as loading the damn thing up in the first place!

dssstrkl

I too have had the problem of extraordinary sync times.
This is what I am running:

Running Vista.
I have the latest iTunes updates from Mac.
I too, uninstalled everything Mac then reinstalled it fresh.
78 Apps
1.5 GB photos
6.1 GB movies
6.5 GB music
(about 15 GB total)

Yeah, I would say it is a 6 hour+ sync time for me.
Back-up's + syncs can be longer.

Then there were the continuous Apple Logo of Death "lock-ups" at the END of my sync's that would make me RESTORE the phone scratch and start over. (I have seriously had my phone about 1 usable day this week due to lock-ups and then 6-hour + restores)

A friend suggested I move my iPhone dock from the USB port on the back of my computer to the front USB port - he had had trouble with large file transfers when drawing a lot of power from a cluster of closely grouped USB ports that were also being used to run other devices (keyboard, mouse, printers, external HD, etc.)

When I thought about it, all of my Logo of Death "lock-ups" happened after I bought the dock and plugged into the back, when before I had just been using the USB cord that came with the iPhone which was plugged into the FRONT USB port on my computer. I am in the middle of that sync now so we shall see…

I love my iPhone (when it's working), but these lock-ups have been a shit-show.

Bruhaha

We should be able to opt out of doing a backup every time the phone is synced. This is so fuc*ing irritating when I want to add a small playlist to my phone and iTunes has to back up the whole phone to do it.

MichelleDatsun

It takes over 12 hours for my iPhone to sync. Something is really wrong.

pri_them2

The size of the backup folder is 848.1 MegaBytes (MB) and not Gigabytes (GB), right? If so, youve got to tell me what kind of compression you have on that folder since the HD is only 320 GB, and that's before adding the OS :-P

theblackdog

what I don't get is I just had a backup/sync the other day that took 20 minutes. Normally mine take a couple hours, so I was happy!

Then two days later it again took an hour before I got a call, which cancels the sync. Agh!

azzy

I just gave up and used Gizmodo's solution of disabling backups entirely. When I update my phone now I SSH in and back up all my jailbroken apps, program databases, miscellaneous settings manually and then put them back in after I restore. Tedious and annoying but at least it takes less time than iTunes poor excuse for a backup process.

RobertJP

he act of reading the file will not with, where is the edit post function??

digicatz

I would look for the bad or mis behaving app, for starters. I would also make sure to be on a 2.0 USB, port. Maybe try going back to beginning, and manually adding numbers, and carefully adding apps, My guess is All the backups got corrupted, so the instant you try to load an older back up, even a pre problem back up, those files were probably corrupted. I have seen it before. The act of reading the file with corrupted the original file. So unless you have a pritein copy untouched by Itunes since it was made, (not sure if that is possible)I would manualy rebuild, and test sync before adding apps etc. Also may want to stop by Apple
Genius Bar, as there may be a simple cause/fix we are not aware of.

digicatz

A little off topic, but how do you license the music for these clips?

WiwiJumbo

848.1 GB
1TB iphone confirmed!

Pablos102030

Hah, this is great. The Fanboys are scrambling to find excuses for this piece of junk known as an iPhone. Ah, it's great to see the Fanboys having to eat some humble pie. "Wait, apple isn't perfect? My perfectly crafted world. What will I do? How can my iLife go forward?" Maybe now we can start talking rationally about computers and OS'es.

coolkiwilivin

Mine takes around 8 hours, too. I just thought it was normal until now. I usually plug it in before going to sleep, and then grab it in the morning. Sometimes it's done, sometimes it isn't. I've learned to care very little about the backup process.

ejl10

Foreplay is one of my fav jazz groups. Oh, and that sucks about the syncing thing.

bluerei

This is what's known in the gadget world as "Apple Fucked Up".

OMG! Ponies!

Wow I was mad at my hour + sync... thats crazy!!!

redban

Mine is the original iPhone and never jailbroken. The problem started to show after I upgrade to iPhone 2.0.2 firmware. So I think it is not a hardware problem. The firmware has bugs for sure.

pri_them2

What is the name of the weather, time, date widget?!!!

dorylomorphs

@MadColombian: i mean its not a permanent solution in the way that its not a apple fix. should of worded that differently. ever since i did that my back ups dont take that long.

MadColombian

you guys try this
[www.ipodtouchfans.com]

i tried it and it shortened my sync time to about 10 minutes. its not permanent, but eh...

(i have a 16gb iPhone 3g)

MadColombian

okay, 43 seconds for the z22. I lied. though it doesn't work with iLife software, which sucks. Palm's Mac software is horrible.

kzooguy

ah, simplicity. I have a Palm z22 (the $99 PDA) and it syncs in about 15 seconds. My phone doesn't sync. My iPod... takes about 20-30 seconds tops.

kzooguy

My Q9h can pipe 2 GB from the Micro SDHC card in about 30 minutes over the USB 2.0
It's not the phone speed but the SD card that is slow.
Sync'ing takes just seconds.

There something wrong with that iPhone / Mac or iTunes setup... or the mix just sucks....

aec007

@EBone: 'pain in the ass'?

It's a screw-up^H^H^H^H^H^H a big fuck-up. Technology to check for file changes very quickly and only transfer differences has existed for many years...

My sync takes around an hour and I find that ridiculous.

future-proof

Wow, these long backups baffle me. Granted, I'm using a first gen 4GB phone, but it takes me a max of 10 minutes when I sync, even when the backup progress bar pops up.

uomdeacon

More apps = more backup = more time

It is a pain in the ass that the phone backs up every app, every time.

EBone

Sorry, let me clarify my post above.

You use:

defaults write com.apple.itunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool NO

whenever you want to enable your *application sync* again.

M.O.D.O.K.

My sync for my iPod touch (latest firmware plus OS X 10.5) used to take 1.5+ hours. I got tired of this so I disabled the application sync but kept video/music sync.

I think your iTunes needs to NOT be running when you do this.

Go to the Terminal application on your Mac and paste this in and press enter:

defaults write com.apple.itunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool YES

When you want to enable it again, paste this into Terminal and press enter:

defaults write com.apple.itunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool NO

So far this has been working for me though your mileage may vary.

M.O.D.O.K.

hehehehehehe iphones suck

yuriythebest

@puntai: Why? To the best of my recollection, an LCD screen doesn't need a screensaver.

Nathan Drake

If it's having a whole heap of apps that makes syncing slow, I'm going to have to say it's probably poor coding on the developers part?

Who knows. I use 1.1.4 and am NOT switching to 2.0 until shit like this stops happening.

Rob C

It sounds like with iTunes 7.x, they went to sector-by-sector BU method (basically, a true-blue image of the storage memory), hence the reason for a full backup everytime.

SWAG: the difference between people who are experiencing this and people who are not is that the people who are experiencing this have defective addresses in their SSD (or chips... same difference). The controller has (or should have) wear-leveling built-in... this should reflect in the FAT (or whatever HFS(?) uses that is the same) by handing the OS the start-stop values of where the various fragments of data reside at. However, with a sector-by-sector sequential approach to BU'ing, the FAT (again, whatever is the equivalent) would not be read (hence, cannot tell what is new and what is already BU'ed on the master computer, thus you get full BU).

But with defective addresses, the master computer would PEEK (<-- C64 FTW! :-), and then again and again. Eventually it would give up.

However, why they would go to this method of BU with iTunes 7.x is an unknown.

The only way I know of to test this theory would be:

1) Have two iPhones ... one that takes a long time to sync, the other that doesn't. Use the master computer that the "good" iPhone normally BUs to. Login with the "bad" iPhone's account, try to sync it. If it takes loooong, then we have the issue being in the phone. If not, I just spouted a bunch of BS.

2) If it is within the phone, then we need something like RAMTest, but for the storage memory. I do not know if an app like this is available, so at this point you would prolly have to jailbreak them. I would bet dollars to donuts that the "bad" phone has a large amount of faulty addresses versus the "good" phone.

hypereric

"It just works!"

smashingparadox

I'd like someone to tell me why iTunes takes close to a minute to launch on my MacBookPro.

redfood

My iPhone syncs in around a minute, maybe less.

What the fuck is this guy's deal?

shiftyeyedgoat

Bwaaahahhahaa. Nokia FTW.

DaveBSC

large library on iTunes will reduce it to a crawl. my library is around 200GB and it takes about 30 seconds on my iBook to boot. YES, i have upgraded my hard drive

tayedrumma

Needs more cowbell.

Yes, I know it's Boston and not BOC.

Bruce_A

iphone apps totally weigh down the process

MrBlahBlah

Um, looked to me like it was converting video, or making a backup, either way this is probably due to a slow hard drive, or a damaged usb socket. It would be interesting to see how fast it went after a fresh iPhone wipe, on a new hard drive with a non-piece-of-shit Macbook Air.

Haxd

My sync, after 12 hours, was only 80% done.

[www.ipodhacks.com]

:-\

blakespot

and I quote...
"how do we get the 1000 songs on to iPod? We don't want to wait, so we built in FireWire...lets take a look at how it compares with USB... lets talk about 1000 songs. On iPod with FireWire it is under 10 minutes. On a USB player it is 5 hours. Can you imagine that?...You get to watch it for 5 hours while it loads 1000 songs."

I know USB is faster now, but seriously, why did they ever drop FireWire?

+ Watch video

kellygeorge

How is it that Apple can be fully aware of this awesome concept of incremental backups, exhibited so succinctly in their own Time Machine, and then totally miss the boat when it comes to their current favorite world-dominating device?

Also, why does "synching" seem to consistently delete applications that I've never deleted on my phone or on my Mac.

My hunch is that magic is to blame and rhetorical questions are the solution.

itchytooth

Why is a full backup required when it's basically a 1-way sync from your PC to your iphone (effectively your itunes library is your backup)? Me no understand ...

Surely it only takes a few seconds to backup that new note you made to re-arrange your sock drawer tonight?

knackers

The only reason the iPhone is a "world-dominating device", as you call it, is because it was marketed as such. Its functionality is not only crippled in software (thanks to the carriers), but the damned things are built cheap/brittle and they love to crash all the time.

They should have called it the Acer iPhone. It is an absolute mockery of a product, not at all like Apple's mainstream, and apparently they have no freaking clue how to deal with that sort of failure.

billco

@Faslane66:
Mine barely has any programs, no music, no video.. last time I clocked the backup at about 8 hours as well.. from 9am when I got to work till 5pm when I had to leave, in fact it was only at 90% complete, I had to cancel. Sick and tired of the problems with this phone. I also HAVE to back it up at least once a week cuz this thing crashes way too often. Most of the time the backup is corrupted anyway. Actually I'm restoring my phone as I type this. It crashed again after pressing the home button, yay. Hmm what's this? "The backup file is corrupted..." Sigh..

exstns

@utube2007: does it really fucking matter...

mikail511

i dunno, my ipod touch syncs in under a minute, and "backs up" in about 2 minutes.

StevieQ

@utube2007: My normal highschool day was 7 to 3:30. When I had AP Chem it was 6 to 3:30.

nicless

iphone 3g=epic fail

quite frustrated with mine, even though backups take 30-40 minutes with 36 apps, most of them light applications such as google

themediaguy

When downloading and installing 2.0.2, I walked away from my laptop. When I returned to the laptop, itunes said there was an error installing 2.0.2, and my iphone was locked up. I had to do a restore from a recent backup, and it took all of 6 hours! (BTW this is my first plunge in to anything "apple.")

halfkorean

yeah....sometimes its just easier to have a phone that behaves like a usb drive so that i can use my os file browser to dump in files...

urbanturban666

the longest I've ever had to sync was 15 minutes.....
most of the time the syncs take like 5 to 8 minutes.... (I sync two iPhones on this computer a white 16GB and a black 16GB both with practically the same stuff on it.)
and I have a macbook (black) and a iPhone 3G 16GB

specs of macbook
2.16 GHz C2D
4MB L2 Cache
160 GB 5400RPM
1 GB RAM

I have on the iPhone 3G
Songs: 675
Videos: 15
Photos: 86
Apps:34 apps (excluding stock apps

Exodius

The guy probably did it over USB 1.0 port and didn't think about using a USB 2.0 port.

scumola

I am experiencing the 3 and 4 hours backups and find it so very frustrating. I somewhat temporarily resolved my problem by turning off iPhone backup via the terminal: defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

I originally thought I could control click on the iPhone in the device column and do a backup whenever I thought it was necessary but when disabling backups this menu item is no longer available and disable's all backups. Now, I just turn backups on and off via terminal and perform my backup.

I have had 4 lockups this week that required a full restore. Until yesterday not one of the restored backups were valid and I end up setting up as new phone. I believe when you cancel a backup via the iTunes status window it leaves the backup incomplete and it isn't any good.

donperreault

my iPod touch syncs really fast...but gets glacial if there is an issue synching to mobile me (ie, adding contacts, issues with my iCal). In that case it'll take hours, unless I dismiss the window, which I often don't see because i'ts hidden under all the other windows and doesn't show up on the windows menu under the finder. I pretty much have to shrink all my windows to see the synching conflict or issue window.

SandersLumos

outch!! and samsung omnia as a problem......

andrediaslopes

Looks like your using a ipod nano cable. I had a problem using an ipod nano cable where I would get errors.. took me a week to realize i was using the wrong cable.

agn507

I see the problem. In the beginning of the video you can see him uncheck the box labeled: "Sync without problems".

HilliardDeeson

I had a similar problem when using an ipod nano cable. If you look in the video it doesn't appear he is using the iphone cable.. it's thinner then the one that comes with the iphone. -- Anthony Neumann

BarryEliphino

I've had this exact same problem. My iPod touch sometimes takes 2-3 hours to sync. I've lost all the data to my iPod touch 5 times and once had to get apple to restore all of my paid apps back for downloading. My laptop is less then a year old and so is my ipod touch. I've e-mail Apple about this but they have never really addressed this issue.

NatalieFeargal

So you'll let us know when Apple contacts you for this guys info, right? I mean, after Wil Wheaton Twittered about his cable being ridiculous, he got a call from his cable company's head honcho telling him that they read Twitter. And I like Gizmodo better than Twitter, so I'm sure you'll be getting a call. Shay

UlaKapish

I too am having the same issues... My iPhone takes over 8 hours to backup... If I sync and cancel the backup it takes a few moments... It has to be reated to my computer somehow... I just cant figure out what (and I'm a mac only consultant... apple certified, member of the consultants network yadda yadda yadda)...

First... I know it's not the iPhone as I had the Apple Store give me a new one...

I've cleared out the old backups...

I've manually deleted and re-downloaded all applications (I have 95)...

I've reset the phone many times...

I've cleared caches...

I've done the disable sending info to apple "fix"...

I've done a slew of other things... NOTHING seems to fix it...

I suppose I could spend more time trying to figure it out, but to be honest after spending a long day fixing other people's problems, the last thing I want to do when I get home is spend hours trouble-shooting my own computer specially when everything else on the machine is working perfectly...

"Physician heal thy self"...

shpider

This experience is the same as mine. With no applications installed at all I can do a backup in about 30 seconds. With apps installed about 6+ hours.

I found that for every application I add, it adds about 5-10 minutes to the backup time. My backup times are generally longer than 6 hours now and I run them once a week overnight.

One thing that I have noted is that iTunes when it runs a backup creates thousands and thousands of files in the backup directory. Generally after a backup completes I find about 9000+ new files have been written to the backup directory. This has got to be some Apple engineers idea of a joke on Windows users because that is just hands down stupid to do period.

Honestly I wish Apple would pull its head out and smell the user air for a change and get this fixed.

ompwebdude

Doc Brown: Are those my clocks I hear?
Marty McFly: Yeah! Uh, it's 8 o'clock!
Doc Brown: Perfect! My experiment worked! They're all exactly 25 minutes slow.
Marty McFly: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Doc... Are you telling me that it's 8:25?
Doc Brown: Precisely.
Marty McFly: Damn! I'm late for school!

onewiththewurlitzer

My backups take 8 to 12 hours if I add an application. It's 8 hours on my 16G iPhone and 12 on my 16G iPod Touch (about double the number of applications). It never seems to do an incremental backup if there's a change to an app or the number of apps. Really bad. This is on a MacPro dual 3GHz quad core, witth 8GB of memory.

tompanderson

Yeah, I question the backup folder size... I have 103 MB and 1426 items. I was wondering where he had .9 of TB... is this a typo?

alphadog00

It takes me like 15min to sync. But i think the Gov is trying to track ur iPhone..... LOL

megacoolguy

"The backup folder produced this time weighs in at 9,771 items and 848.1 GB"

Anybody else pick up on this? I don't know if he has the 8gb or 16gb model, but that's either 106x or 53x the total storage his iphone has to offer. What sort of otherworldly "backup" could ever contain 50-100x as much information as what its backing up?

ghstomahawks

Why in the hell does someone need 74 iPhone apps!? What are you doing with them besides showing them off to people for about 2 hours a day?
You bicth about how long the sync times are, but what about all the time you waste every day just playing around with, and maintaining, your precious iPhone?

Life is too short to be keeping track of what to do with 74 iPhone apps!!! Get a grip!!

Dinotech

Apple will eventually fix this problem.
Until then, stop torturing yourself and just click the x to cancel the backup.
Then the sync will be fast.

richlove

i thought it was taking everyone 5-8 hrs. That's how long mine takes.

socioecoboy