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Backup iTunes in Windows XP?

Now that my phone is all set up, how can one back up simply the iTunes app and files necessary for restoring should one's disk drive crash? (I can't do a whole disk backup for a while so would like to gete all the iTunes stuff backed up until I can do that)?

This is a Windows XP machine.

(BTW, does anyone know why I have to use this same machine to log into the discussions? I tried it on another machine while this one was busy and it insisted on setting up a new account - ??)

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Dell, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Feb 9, 2009 8:27 AM

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Feb 9, 2009 4:42 PM in response to abellan

Thanks - those are great articles. I do have two questions after reading through them. I tried to follow the "External Drive" backup web page, since that's what is applicable to my situation. Here're my questions:

I already had set my iTunes folder to be "c:\media files\iTunes" since that was a place I customarily put such things. I don't see anything in there that looks out of the ordinanry. (I have "show hidden files and folders" turned on.) I see the subdirectories where I place various music and video files, and after going through the document and checking "copy files to iTunes music folder" and doing the "consolidate" option, I didn't see any message and no disk activity. When I examined the "c:\media files\iTunes" directory again I saw nothing different.

1 - So will I actually get a backup as planned if I write that directory to another disk?

2 - Where are things like the settings and applications?
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