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howtogeek wrote: Originally published at: http://www.howtogeek.com/164275/how-to-change-the-backup-location-of-itunes-or-any-windows-app/The vast majority of Windows applications park their backups...
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Jim Walsh (jamesdwalsh) wrote: Another reason to do this symbolic linking occurs to me. I like to keep the operating system and programs on an operating system partition and data on a separate data...
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Miriam Stark (mirihawk) wrote: Usually I don't have any issues following the directions in these articles, however I can't seem to get this one to work. The most recent error I have is "Location not...
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Gerard Mc Carthy (Gerard) wrote: You must create the backup directory folder on your "G:" (or similar) drive. Should solve your problem if you got the <<===>> symbol from command prompt.
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Jack Kitchen (jkitc) wrote: You say"Initiate an iTunes backup" I am lost, because I don't know how to do that. Could someone tell me how to do that. Details please. jkitc
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dpb wrote: Connect your device to your computer with iTunes on it. Once it shows in "Devices" (in the left sidebar), right-click next to devices and choose "BACKUP". Also an automatic backup is...
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dpb wrote: I had "location not available" too at first. I solved the problem by formatting the new drive first. Make sure it's FAT32. I used an empty USB stick. Make sure everything on there is...
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Jack Kitchen (jkitc) wrote: Thank you very much. Everything worked great. One problem along the way. This part I had to type in manually: mklink /J "%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup"...
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dpb wrote: I am not sure which OS you have...I am on Windows 7 (Command Prompt might be different on yours). Once I copied the link in the post for the command prompt with CTRL+C, I'll right-click...
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Jon Woellhaf (YanWo) wrote: I can also paste to the command window by right clicking the prompt and clicking paste.
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Jack Kitchen (jkitc) wrote: Here's a neat trick,while still in the command prompt in the MobileSync folder, type in dir and ENTER and it will show this: JUNCTION Backup B:\iTunes Backup This is...
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Roel Wyman (roelw) wrote: Not quite clear on one point: I want to move all my iTunes files to another disk, not just the backup. If I follow these instructions, can I delete my files on C:? If not,...
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Miriam Stark (mirihawk) wrote: I think my problem is that I want to put it in a different place on the C drive. (so that it is not picked up by a roaming profile. our users are allowed to have music...
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Will_Patey wrote: Im getting "'mklink' is not recognized as internal or external command, operable program or batch file". Any ideas why?! Help!
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Frank479 (frank479) wrote: I tried this awhile ago (moving my entire iTunes folder from my C drive) and it did work but, if memory serves me correctly, Windows Backup then wanted to back up my C drive...
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lmg93 wrote: I tried this and it changed the backups location but now I can't restore to any of my older backups that I moved. It used to give me options to back up from at least 2012, and now I don't...
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Ryan (supercoupe08) wrote: I followed your tutorial down to the T. The symbolic link works great. I am trying to free up the 29gb space my backups are hoarding on my 70gb hdd. I don't want to lose my...
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John Drago (BuckeyeBob) wrote: I'm desperately trying to get this to work so that I can upgrade to iOS 7. (My SSD is nearly full, thanks to Steam Games.) I'm using the mklink command and get the error...
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Sivampeta Prajwal (prajwalsivampet) wrote: I am unable to access the command mlink.Am using winxp sp 2.
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jgeekw wrote: I keep getting a "syntax of the command is incorrect" error. I am copying your text and just modifying the target directory (mine is E:). Any ideas would be helpful. Read full topic
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