Asp Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I had to install iTunes on my XP PC so my daughter could backup her iPhone. When it did it created a folder of 8GB --C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup I have an SSD for my boot drive, 64 GB and space is tight. I had 12 GB free, now I have 4.I wanted to locate this on my storage drive, 1TB hard disk, where I keep my media and backups and whatever. There are few enough options in iTunes and none I see about this.I used Regedit to seach for the folder name and it isn't even mentioned. Anyone have any ideas? (aside from "Buy a bigger drive"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Do you want to move the whole thing (i.e. installation also) or just the actual files?If the second, easiest would be making a link, *like*:http://www.copytrans.net/support/how-to-change-itunes-backup-location/http://www.howtogeek.com/164275/how-to-change-the-backup-location-of-itunes-or-any-windows-app/(though this is not exactly "move", more like "relocating" ) jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asp Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 (edited) Thanks, that's what I needed. Obviously didn't use the right terms when I searched. I just got a bunch of useless Apple FAQs. If by "whole thing" you mean the program and iTunes library, those are configurable in the program. The program folder is "only" 200 MB anyway. It's the backup that's the problem and 40x bigger. I used symbolic links back in my youth on Unix. Never tried them on Windows. I may find other uses for them.--PS, I'm on XP, so don't have "mklink", so I got Sysinternals Junction. But the "Shelbee" program supposedly does iOS backups directly, so if that really works I can get rid of iTunes completely. Edited February 9, 2015 by Asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 The program folder is "only" 200 MB anyway.Yep beauty is - as always - in the eye of the beholder, to me 200 Mb for a stupid program, half-way between a database/library and a backup/restore tool is like 199 Mb too much. , but you will find a lot of people calling that crazy amount of bloat "only". jaclaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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