Hello Guys and Girls it is Lurgs here if you find any of my videos useful please
subscribe to my channel. And today how to change the iTunes backup location in
Windows 10. Now I find this really annoying because on my computer I have got
2 Drives, I have got a super fast SSD Drive and I have got a normal hard drive,
et voila, so my C: Drive is my super fast SSD drive obviously that fills up very very
quickly. So when I plugged my iPhone into iTunes it tries to auto backup and
the C: Drive just fills up instantly and then iTunes just crashes so what I want
to do, I want to backup my iPhone to the D: Drive which has got zillions and
zillions of space, and this is how we go about this process, so just follow along
with me. So in File Explorer you need to go to
this folder. I will put this in the description, obviously yours will not be Lurgs.
It will be whatever your User Name is and there is a folder in there called 'Backup'
which is where all your iPhone backup files will go. So go to your D: Drive in
the Root folder and create a new folder called 'Mobile Sync' with a capital M and
a capital S. It is very important you get it exactly right! Now if we go back to
your C: Drive where your iTunes backup is and on this backup folder Right click on
your mouse and then select 'Cut' and then go to the New folder you have created
'Mobile Sync' and do Paste. On mine it is super quick because I have not got much in
there but yours might take anything up to 5 minutes. Now go to a Command prompt
in Windows, so just type 'cmd' in the Search Bar and press [Enter], brings you up
a command prompt and now you need to enter this text. Again I will put this in
description so just copy this text from my description and in the command prompt
press [Ctrl] & [V] which is the Paste prompt and Paste that command in. Now
that will actually say that it has worked and what that is
doing is that is putting a redirect on that iTunes backup folder,
to then go to the New Folder that we have just created. So as you can see on
that Backup folder it has now got a small redirect arrow on it which is saying
that it is now being redirected. So now let us start iTunes. My iPhone is already
plugged in so let us just select my iPhone here and as you can see iTunes says
backup to this computer you cannot turn that off. So now if we start the Sync.
Now what it is going to try and do now is it is going to try and Backup, as I said
before, before we did this process it would have just filled up my C: Drive and
then crashed. So now hopefully with that folder that we have just created that
iTunes backup will now go to the new folder on the D: Drive. I am going to speed
this process up on the Video, this can take quite a long time so as this is
backing up let us just check what is happening. So in the D: Drive 'Mobile Sync' backup folder
We can see that things are starting to happen see we have got lots of
space on my D: Drive. So if we open up that Folder we can see it is now starting
to fill up with all the Backups it is creating.
So let us go back to iTunes, I will just speed this up for the purpose of the video.
So we are backing up, we are backing up, we are backing up.
I have got a 64GB iPhone so there is a lot of stuff on there. So let us go back to the Backup folder.
Look at the 'Properties'. Yes, you can see that it is filling up with all
the Backup which is absolutely exactly what we wanted. So that is looking good.
Let us go back to the C: Drive which is my SSD Drive and that is exactly the same.
That is not filling up so that is great news.
So back to iTunes again the backup has almost finished. Look at the 'Properties'.
And look at that it has backed up to the D: Drive exactly what we wanted to
accomplish, let us just check the C: Drive again, that is exactly the same, brilliant.
That is exactly what we wanted. So now it has backed up to the D: Drive and now
I am just syncing my music which is absolutely brilliant, as I said before
iTunes was just crashing so that is the End and please subscribe if you can
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