Saturday, February 19, 2011

Topic : Changing backup location.

You can't change the iTunes behavior, as far as I can tell.

However, you can use a feature of NTFS to point that folder to another drive. This feature is typically called a "junction" or "symbolic link".

You can use this tool to create a junction:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

For example, let's say you want your iPhone backup to be D:\backup. You would do this:

1. close iTunes
2. Move the folder c:\documents and settings\user\application data\apple computer\mobile sync\backup to D:\
3. Extract the junction.zip to the Desktop.
4. Open a command prompt and enter these commands:

cd Desktop
junction D:\backup "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\Mobile Sync\Backup"

NOTE 1: Change "username" to match your current username, of course.

NOTE 2: I did not test the above! In general, junction points work OK, but only if programs don't mess with the linked directory (like rename or remove it). For example, if iTunes does something like delete the ...\Mobile Sync\Backup directory and then recreate it, it will no longer go to the D:\backups folder.

Source: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2076697

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