If you are still on XP and not Vista or Windows 7, you don't have mklink, but you can use the junction utility in the same way.Īgain, if these instructions don't make sense do you, I urge you to find a techie and please, be careful. Where is the iTunes backup location on Windows 10/8/7/XP or Mac How to change iTunes backup location to store on another place Find the answers in this post. Note the :Ĭ:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync>dirĭirectory of C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync You can also confirm it with dir from the command line. Note the little "shortcut" overlay icon? That's saying this is a link. You should see something like this in Windows 7. Mklink /J "C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "f:\yournewfolder\Backup"
You can do this from the Start Menu, type cmd.exe, then right click and select Run As Administrator. Do you want to change iTunes backup location to another drive for running out of space This guide explains where does iTunes store backups and how to change iTunes backup to another location in. Finally, start a command prompt as an administrator.Now, move the C:\Users\(yourname)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ folder to your preferred location.Within that folder you will see a folder simply titled Backup.
In the shortcut box paste the following: APPDATAApple ComputerMobileSync Advertisement This will take you to the backup folder used by iTunes. You'll move it to a drive with more space, but you'll LIE to iTunes using a little-used Windows Utility that will make a LINK between the folder iTunes expects to find and the folder you want your backups in. We need to locate the current iTunes backup directory and rename it. If you are reasonably savvy and you understand that this Works On My Machine, then we'll get along fine. Remember that you googled your way to this blog and I'm just a random guy.
It's totally not supported and could totally screw up your computer, so you've been warned. I wanted to move it but there's no officially support way. My C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync was almost 25 gigs and on a 256 gig hard drive, that's 10% and that's tight.