Is there any way to backup iphone to alternate location on windows?

[Herr Kutz]

I need to backup my iphone (~90gb) but I don't have enough space on the SSD boot drives of either of my computers. I know you can move the backup from your main drive to another drive after you have made your iphone backup, but is there a way to change the location and then hit backup in itunes?

 

[AMDisTheBEST]

hhahahaah, what do you think ios is? android? you can't bloody do anything that apple does not allow you to.

If you cant do that on itunes, you are out of luck

No trolling.

Usandthem
AT Mod

 

[TheStu]

OP, looks like there's a way to create a 'junction' (basically a symlink) in Windows, that will re-locate the folder to another drive, but will still let things point to the original folder.

https://superuser.com/questions/180393/how-to-change-iphone-backup-location-on-windows

I'm also not 100% sure that iTunes even does complete backups anymore, so it ultimately may not even take up 90gb.

 

[Oyeve]

Nope.

 

[AMDisTheBEST]

How was that trolling? I owned an Apple product (iPhone X) myself.

*sigh this Apple sub forum has narrower mentality than an Apple subreddit.



See, that's trolling this forum again.


esquared
Anandtech Forum Director