Change iTunes Backup Location on Windows
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Check out our today’s Tech News headlines at TechCoreNews.com In this video I got over changing the backup location for your device. When backing up your device in iTunes it will save it to your hard drive. The only way to change this is by creating a symlink to another location. In this video we change the location to a USB drive. .
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Thanks for the tips, but your flashdrive disc lettering is confusing bro, because the first "J" is a command, and the last "J" is the letter of your external drive.
In my case:
mklink /J "%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\iTunesbackup"
first "/J" is the command for creating the link, then at the end i use D:\ because the folder is on the disk D. if your folder is in E:, then change to E: etc etc
Thanks Arif for the explanation.
Thanks this was what confused me at first too
Thanks it was very confusing indeed!
another simpler example:
mklink /J "%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "E:\Backup"
the first "/J" is not the location of any drive, it is just the win command that you must follow/type. It has nothing to do with his external drive location.
The "E:\Backup" is where I will put the new back up location.
Thank you so much you saved me from lot of frustration
All the forums I found couldn’t make it this easy. THANKS!!
Thank you so much! I have been trying to do this all night and nothing was working. I am so glad I found this tutorial!
Aaaah, I eventually got it! I didn't realise the /J had to be /J! I'm a total noob and didn't take notice of you saying it's the link you need. Was because your hard drive was also J I was thinking it all had to match, so I was using /E instead! Hope this helps any other PC illiterate folk, haha. Thanks so much man!
@@zakrhyno does it HAVE to be /J?
2 years later, still relevant. thanks bud, much appreciated!
Wow! Thank you SO much. I can't believe Apple doesn't allow for changing backup storage location, especially with so many using relatively small SSD's. You made my day.
It took a little maneuvering since mine wanted to backup to C:Users\me\Apple for some reason but I figured it out. Thank you SO MUCH!!! What a life saver.
How you figured it out? I have the same issue
Half of the videos r fake or promoting unknown app, this video is legit and worked perfectly thanks alot mate
Ive been struggling for hours and have been watching so many videos and yours actually helped! Thank youuuu
Thanks for a great video and explanation. My question is - does this work in reverse if you need to restore your iPhone from backup. Will iTunes find its way to the latest backup on the 'E' drive (in your example) via the 'Junction' link.
Thanks
Chris
Hello. After i finish my backup. can i delete the shortcuts from the C director?
"Cannot create a file when that file already exists." It gives me this message, but I deleted all the folders and files and even deleted the program itself once. But it still gives me this message.
Can you pls💜 make a video on how to undo the process to the original location 🥺
Just erase the backup shortcut and make a new file called backup
still my Itunes said no enough storage dont know why
you couldn't put the command in the description?
A helpful youtube tutorial video that gets straight to the point without being unnecessarily 10 minutes long? What's going on?!
ive delted the folder and it still cant create it saying it already exists, also deleted from bin
Thank you so much, it helps me a lot.. But I wonder how can I reverse back to normal after I installed a larger Hard Disk?
Hi, it will be also awsome if you could explain how to restore to the original configuration just in case.
Thanks bro without this my C drive would be saying 111 GB free of 111 GB
Hey, This is amazing! Thanks. Just a quick question out of curiosity. Would it be different if I Right Clicked>Create Shortcut on the destination Backup folder and moved the shortcut to the original MobileSync folder?
Very helpful, Tried and worked (May 2020) Thanks!
What if I wanted to restore back ? Will you plz write or you had a video for this ? Thank you very much I was struggling for many days finally someone explain so nice n that’s works 100% really appreciate 👌👏
Great Video, very helpful. Thanks for your time :)
My pleasure!
Can you put the command in your detail?
Confusing as shit because the drive you're using here is called J while the command was also J.
Since I wanted to use my H drive, I renamed both J's in the mklink line as H. Naturally it didn't work.
Took me another video to realize my mistake. Maybe next time provide the cmd line in your description.
Here's mine:
mklink /J "%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup "TheLetterOfYourDriveGoesHere:\itunesbackup"
what a useful video, thank u so much.
Thanks it work ..... the other videos on RUclips didn’t work
Very Great full and clear explanation - Thanks mate :)
Very simple explanation! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank You Tons for the UPLOAD!!!
Much appreciated!!!!
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Thanks, very helpful.
this fr helped me now i can get ios 15 on my phone!! big thank you!!!!
Thanks alot man, great videos tutorial, worked so fine !
it says " local volume are required to complete the operation" why is that?
same
saved my life dude
Thanks bro it's a really helpful command
You're welcome!
Hi so if any of you cannot find your apple backup folder, it's because of the new update as of late-ish 2020 I think?
You will find the backup folder under C:\Users\YourUsername
It'll be under the Apple folder.
Take my like.
Thanks for the most helpful video today! :)
The best video explaining this
Thank you so much!!
for me it says "local volumes are required to complete the operation" any help on this??? please???
What are you trying to backup to?
TechCoreDuo i’m trying to backup to itunes, but there’s not enough space on my C drive, so i tried using your method, but this is what it gives me.
did you find a fix
anthony nope :/ i just connected my phone to my laptop via charging cable and just copied all my photos onto my laptop
Enter name of your local drive instead of J drive for instance D or E
Thank you so much
Your video helped me a lot
you are the best!
thanks man you really helped me
keep up please
Thank you
Thank you!!
You're welcome!
I swear this shit works. OMG for a tech idiot like me, this is really simple to understand and best of all it works for me. I am really thankful!!
Thanks bro still works
thanks man
Is it possible to perform same command to link to My Cloud nas? Thanks
Lifesaver. Thank you so much
Great tip, thank you!!
Thank you!
Works. Thank you!
I hope you notice me. I just want to ask how to restore back to my iphone from external storage? Thank you😊
You should be able to hold shit when you click the restore button to choose the backup you want.
TechCoreDuo thank you! It’s work!
Ok now how using iTunes do we RESTOR from the redirected external drive location. I understand how we save or backup to the external drive, but its useless if I need to restore it, OR WILL THE REDIRECT WORK FOR BACKUP AND RESTORE?
I went into the %appdata% but yet i have no Apple Computer, what do i do?
It’ll be under users, apple, then the mobilesync will be in there
Thank you so much, after spending a whole day and half backing up and moving files on my MBP, it REFUSES to backup "not enough free space" I have over 300GB of free space on my HD and apparently that's isn't enough. Clearly an apple issue (my iphone is a 256gb)
*Eyeroll* thank goodness I still have a working PC to do this backup instead. Thank you soo much.
Thank You so Much!!
Thanks So Much! My C drive was always full so I put it in a other folder. This video really helped. Thanks
My backup folder from itunes is at a different location (C:\Users\Musanna\Apple\MobileSync\Backup) and my backup folder is empty too but running the command it says "Cannot create a file when that file already exists."
Where am I going wrong? Can anyone help me here?
the command im using is this: mklink /J "C:\Users\Musanna\Apple\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\Itunes Backup"
Try to delete the “Backup” folder first and try the command again.
@@TechCoreDuo It worked. I deleted backup folder and tried command again and it worked. Thank you so much
THANK YOU.
Thank you very Much
excellent
Brilliant solution! Thank you! :-)
thank you SO MUCH
Thanks!
Thank you very much. Correction:
When I opened the short cut back up folder on C. It shows the test file I put it in there and the top address thinks it’s on C/ apple/…backup but it really is not
When I removed it from E drive it also was gone from c drive
But I still see a problem. When I put something in that short cut, it does move to new location as you mentioned but it is still taking space from my C drive!? I do not want it to be there…
Thanks man :)
can u explain the " /J " after the mklink command. it it your original backup harddrive or your external harddrive? Or it is the command that all of use need to use?
The /J is a switch that needs to be entered to create the link. Its all explained in the video. I backup to an external drive.
@@TechCoreDuo Thank you. It works !
Didnt work for me. I got the symlink confirmation, but the external backup folder was not created. When I tried to navigate to it from the origin folder, it said it didnt exist. So I manually created the folder, and confirmed it was working. Unfortunately, iTunes still says my drive is full and, oh so helpfully suggests I empty my recycle bin.
thank you!!
You're welcome!
Can you put the paths in the description for me? I know to replace the drive names etc but the rest I have to go back n forth.
Hi, i followed all your steps and was successfully able to create a backup. However when i tried to restore the backup on another iphone it goes through the entire process and says “itunes failed to restore the backup because the backup file is corrupt. Please help me out what do i do?
Cannot create a file when that file already exists. this is always poping out
Blaze Dark delete the backup folder on app data first
@@yosh29rs thank you
Hi
i am getting the below error while trying to change the back up location , Please help
"Cannot create a file when that file already exists "
does this work out with the restoration of backups?
Hey, I did those processes and I created new backup folder but the old one still exist and I was changed that folder name as backup-old. Now how can I undo that process and download the previous backup? Should I delete the new ones and make the older ones name Backup again? Is that enough?
didnt work , typed in comand as per vid.. but the backup folder in mobike sync did not appear and i cant redo it as it says file already created
Try to delete the new folder you created and then try to relink it.
@@TechCoreDuo have the same problem but still didn’t work :(
Mine is
mklink /J “Apple\MobileSync\Backup” “G:\itunesbackup”
Please help, this didn't work for me. During the backup process, my PC storage maxed out and it seems like the backup cluttered my main storage instead of the F: drive that I'm trying to move it to.
my MobileSync is not AppData/Roaming, it's in C/User/Local/Apple/MobileSync...? is that the folder?
My back up location doesn’t show in app data. Its shows in directly on user> apple> mobilesync > backup. Any solution for this?
Thanks😊
Welcome 😊
I did that and i cannot access the doc named Backup (the one that has the shortcut icon) it says that backup folder is unavailable...
how do I get a backup file back to itunes? I restored my pc and had my backup file on a flashdrive and when I paste it back in the itunes backup file it don't show in itunes that I have a backup restore point?
You're not explaining that the "J" at the beginning is not the letter of your "stuff" drive. People are typing the first J as whatever their external HDD letter is. Also, you're not telling people about the spaces between bits of the script. My external HDD is my "I" (eye) drive. So this script should work. It has done for me.
mklink /J "C:\Users\YourPCUserNameHere\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" I:\itunesbackup
mklink /D "C:\Users\amanc\Apple\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\Backup_ipad"
run in cmd as admin
In case ur backup is created in user not in appdata.
i moved to D drive and target folder = D:\Backup_ipad
Safe my time and live! Good!
Apple computer folder is not visible in Roaming Folder of Appdata !! ( Using Windows 10 ) How to go about it ? Thanks a lot
Update : In Windows 10 , the folder is located here : C:\Users\\Apple\MobileSync\Backup. Hope it helps . Thanks
Update 2 : NOT happening., " Invalid Switch F"" error, where F is the disk where are want to create folder . Super confused I am . Some please help
He sounds like Jim from the office
im having trouble getting the CMD prompt to work is it possible for you to make me the script to paste into cmd prompt
original folder is C:\Users\Andrew\Apple\MobileSync/Backup
new folder is G:\Andrew\itunes\MobileSync/Backup
I should copy and paste old backup instead delete ?
Yes, you can. Its not a bad idea to save that also.
I keep getting the error "Local volumes are required to complete the operation". I've tried looking it up but can't find a solution :/
I'm facing the same problem. Anyone?
@@dorasteiner419
kashif shakeel
1 second ago
Enter name of your local drive instead of J drive for instance D or E
So I was able to follow this and got everything working. Did the back up and it saved. Now my issue is I am trying to restore my phone using that back up, but itunes doesn't show any back ups to restore. Any ideas or did I lose everything?
It is a symbolic link and when you click on restore it should show the backup directory which is pointing to your new new external drive. Is that not appearing for you?
Thanks.. i just find out this method not working with itunes download from Microsoft Store
how to fix it is saying LOCAL VOLUMES ARE REQUIERD???
WHY THE FUCK DOESNT ITUNES GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO BACKUP TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My command prompt wrote "symbolic link" instead of "Junction" but otherwise seemed to work. I'm also on W10 in 2021 so maybe some things changed by then.
That's good to know. I will have to look into this a bit further if I need to make a follow up video.