#How to change itunes backup location pc win 10 windows#
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. 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" One thing to to make sure of, don't end up with a folder like f:\yournewbackupfolder\Backup\Backup, so be sure to check how your folders ended up when you moved them.From the command prompt, create an junction point as I do below, just change f:\yournewfolder with your new location. You can do this from the Start Menu, type cmd.exe, then right click and select Run As Administrator. 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.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. 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.
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