How do I backup my iPhone to an external drive using iTunes?

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How do I backup my iPhone to an external drive using iTunes?

I have very limited space on my internal hard drive. When backing up my iPhone to the computer using iTunes it uses the internal drive regardless of my iTunes library being located on my external drive. I want iTunes to automatically save backups to an external drive. How is this done?

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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), i7, SSD

Posted on Apr 19, 2015 3:10 PM

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Niel

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Apr 19, 2015 3:19 PM in response to willibn

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, provide ~/Library/Application Support/ as the path, drag the MobileSync folder to the external drive, put it in the Trash(don't empty it yet), choose Utilities from the Go menu, open the AppleScript Editor, and run the following exactly as posted:

do shell script "ln -s " & (quoted form of POSIX path of (choose folder)) & " ~/Library/Application\\ Support/MobileSync"

When prompted, choose the folder you moved. If it works properly, empty the Trash.

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