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#Decipher backup repair license windows 10#
%userprofile%\Apple\MobileSync\Backup for iTunes installed from the Microsoft Store on Windows 10 and 11.įollow these steps to set up iTunes to back up your iPhone to an external drive on WindowsĬlose iTunes if it's open now. %appdata%\"Apple Computer"\MobileSync\Backup for iTunes downloaded from Apple's website. We have to get to your existing iTunes stored backups, move them to the drive/location that you want, and then create the junction (link) from the usual app data folder to your real location on the different drive.ĭepending on which version of iTunes you use, the location where the iOS backups are stored is different. I am going to refer to your primary drive as C:\ and your external drive as D:\, please change the drive letters appropriately for your main hard drive and external drive letters.
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Storing your iTunes backups to an external drive on Windows using junctions iTunes/Finder doesn't really "notice" when drive connectivity is lost, so using a drive with intermittent/buggy connection is bad news because you won't find out if the drive connection went down while you were making backups. Network shared drives tend to have connections that time out or go intermittent, which is ok for copying files to and from usually, but don't work as well for apps expecting a stable consistent connection to read/write, like the iOS backups need. One quick caveat: If you use symlinks/junctions to redirect to a network-shared drive, please remember your drive connection isn't as stable as a local drive or USB external. We can use this same trick to relocate your iPhone and iPad backups made in iTunes or Finder to another location if you want to do that. "symlinks" macOS) to redirect a folder to another drive. In either case, the instructions we'll get to shortly will help you find the iTunes/Finder backups on your computer.Ī popular way to work around the limitations in using this storage location in the user account data is to use junctions (Windows) or symbolic links (a.k.a. On macOS, your user account data is stored in ~/Library/Application Support which is usually on the Macintosh HD volume. On Windows, your user account data is stored in the %appdata% folder which is usually something like C:\Users\your username\AppData\Roaming but varies by Windows configurations.
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The not great thing about user account storage is that it's usually on the "primary" hard drive, which can cause you to run into drive-space limitations on the primary drive. The great thing about this is that your backups are stored in your user account data, keeping them separate from backups made by other user accounts on the computer (and protected by your user accounts setup if you share your computer). ITunes and Finder write your iPhone and iPad backups to a folder in your computer user account's area designated for "app storage" as is recommended for third party apps on macOS and Windows.