iTunes Could Not Restore the iPhone Because the Backup Does Not Exist

If you've gotten to this blog post, you may be somewhat frustrated after selecting a backup to restore in iTunes, to then have iTunes report: iTunes could not restore the iPhone "Unknown" because the backup does not exist.

To which you may want to say: Well I was able to select the backup from the dropdown menu, so it must exist in some way!

I agree! Although you may also notice that the backup disappears from the selection menu after that initial error.

When you make a backup of your iPhone, iTunes stores some information files about the backup along with the backed up files themselves. I usually see this "backup does not exist" when there are problems with these information files among the problems with the backup.

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