I’m posting this in the hope of saving someone else the hours of errors, failed attempts, and sheer frustration I just went through trying to restore my iPhone from a Mac backup.

I’ve been storing my iPhone backups on an external SSD using a symbolic link from Apple’s default backup directory:

~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

This setup worked perfectly for backing up, but restoring was another story.

THE PROBLEM

Every restoration attempt failed or...

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