Where does iTunes put iPhone backups in a PC (Windows 7)?
Where does iTunes put iPhone backups in a PC (Windows 7)?
iTunes-OTHER, Windows 7
Where does iTunes put iPhone backups in a PC (Windows 7)?
iTunes-OTHER, Windows 7
From here...
Windows Vista and Windows 7:
\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
From here...
Windows Vista and Windows 7:
\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
But, I don't have a folder for AppData or anything after that. I know it goes somewhere though, because iTunes backs up my iPhone evertime I plug it in.
Everyone has a folder called AppData. you need to show hidden folders.
otherwise iTunes will show you your backups
Edit > Preferences > Devices.
How do I do that?
If you dont know what you are doing with a backup with iTunes. I dont think you should be snooping around in your hidden folders directory
Never mind I figured out how to show hidden folders and found it.
Thanks,
I found the folder but it was empty. I clicked back up several times already still there's nothing. Please help
I finally found a way to locate where are the backup files.
some of you will be experiencing like me cannot find appdata or dont know what is our our user name, it is because appdata is a hidden file and we need to open the hidden file. i will tell u how to open the hidden file.
1) click my computer
2) tools
3)Folder options
4)view
5) under hidden files and folders, pls tick the box SHOW HIDDEN FILES,FOLDERS AND DRIVES.
Another shorter way to locate where your files are located at we go to
1) start
2) type %appdata% ,press Enter
3)apple computer
4)mobile sync
5)backup.
hope it helps.
I just used the manual back up through iTunes...what exactly gets backed up? I saw that Apps get backed up, but what else?
Apps are not backed up, app data is. Apps are already located in iTunes and thus do not need to be backed up. See this support document for information about what is backed up via iTunes. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
That is where they used to be, I even had several backups from years past - I deleted all the backups I used to have in there through iTunes. Now, iTunes is not saving all of the backups, only the current backup, which is not in the depicted folder when I look.
Any other place they might be, like in ProgramData?
ChrisJ4203 wrote:
Apps are not backed up, app data is. Apps are already located in iTunes and thus do not need to be backed up. See this support document for information about what is backed up via iTunes.
Are you sure about that, because when I backed up my iPad Mini w/7.0.4 and the newest iTunes, it made a 10gb Backup, which is pretty huge considering I only have a "16" Gb Slate iPad (More Like 13.5 Gb).
When I restored it after Jailbreaking, it moved ALL of the Apps I had bought back in - A neat trick if the Apps themselves are not part of the Backup package- Because the apps had NOT been backed up into iTunes on that PC.
iOS 6 did NOT restore my Apps, even though it did restore my folders.
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Follow these steps to display hidden files and folders.
YOu can actually do that right from Windows Explorer. I actually found it, it was in the ProgramData folder like I expected, for windows 7, 8, and 8.1- for XP and Vista it may be elsewhere.
I get the last folder and all I see is :
00aabea60ff653dc810b2768b884e9011caef61
about 8000 times, not pictures, Help/
Scott
Where does iTunes put iPhone backups in a PC (Windows 7)?