Thank you so much! This has been a problem every time I want to backup any of my ipods/iphones, and since itunes won't let you change where the backups go, this helped immensely. I've dealt with having less than 4gb free on my computer C drive for years lol
I spent hours trying to reduce my iPhone memory to do a computer backup on a C drive that was not big enough. I even explored options to repartition my hard disk to increase C drive memory, which proved to be costly. This solved the problem in a surprisingly easy manner. Simple yet specific instructions were extremely useful. You only need to invest 10 minutes of your time. I wish I had found this video sooner! Thank you!
@@Grassp.o If we will transfer the file to a new folder like as you showed in the video so can we open those files from there to have a look as if they are done or not ??
This is the best tutorial I've ever seen in my whole life of living. Even the description of the video contains explanations + time stamps.. Like how can this be so simple yet very detailed and informative and it's all done in under 10 minutes!! Thank you so much!!!
@@Grassp.o Hi, really impressive content, however there is one issue if you can create or let us know regarding how to sync the songs from windows 11 pc to iPhone, have tried multiple times but couldn't done it... Including how do we take iPhone backup on window pc? Thank you Ravi
Can we just uninstall iTunes and reinstall it on the other drive (assuming it’s an internal PC drive / not an external hard drive)? And then just copy and paste the backups?
Hey Grasspo. What about the backup recovery for the phone? Just click restore this back up on itunes and it takes it automatically from the new location?
Ameen: I followed your tutorial and here are the results. All this seems to do is COPY the backup file from the old location to the new location. It doesn't MOVE it. Check the properties on the BACKUP FOLDER, in the old location, not just the MobileSync folder. The BACKUP folder is loaded with files and folders. It appears that this command zeros out the MobileSync properties, leading you to believe it's empty, when in reality it's not. It also creates, unwanted, redundancy by copying the OLD backup location to the NEW backup location. I just finished backing up my iPhone, again, with iTunes. Both the old location BACKUP and the NEW location BACKUP have the same files and folders in them, while the MobileSync folder shows SIZE, SIZE ON DISK and CONTAINS as 0 bytes. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Also, how can I put things back the way they were? Thanks
Exactly, how do you reverse it, since I didn't pay attention to the original commands before changing them? I too still show contents in the "backup" folder, although MobileSync folder shows zero...
I had changed the backup location to an external hard disk. Unfortunately i have lost that hard disk & want to change the location back to my windows. Can you please help I tried following the same method again but this messaged popped on the powershell "cannot create a file when that file already exists" I would really appreciate if you can help me with this. Thank you
hi.. first of all thank you, i did everything what you said on the video, but it says "You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation." can you help me?
Followed exactly what's shown in the video. I am using windows 11 but now I have an iTunes Backup Location on 2 different places. One in the orginal directory and one in the newly created directory. They are linked because when I delete the content in the orginal directory also the file in the newly created directory is deleted. What'ss the problem and how can I solve this?
Thank you so so much for making this video It has helped me tremendously. I did not have even 1GB free space on my laptop until i did what you said. It works great. Be better if it backed up straight to the external devise though as I still have to delete every backup from the laptop. I am not sure if i did something wrong or if that is correct it backs up to laptop and also sends copy to external device then you delete the one on laptop to free space???
Hi! great tutorial. Now unfortunately my hard drive is broken, how do I return to restore the old location to the PC (cannot open the file of the external drive as it is broken). Wanted to do a brand new back up of the phone on the PC and will then buy then a new external drive. Help!
Informative stuff! Well now this means when I'll be backing up my phone thru iTunes it'll be directly backed up to E drive okay... And one of more query will I be able to restoe the iPhone from this same E drive location?
I keep going in circles. Can anyone help? Can you see whatever it is I am doing wrong? This is a copy and paste from my Shell AFTER I have attempted to create the junction. I get NO message saying that the junction has been created. Here's my Shell screen: PS C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup Old> cmd c mklink /J "C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\backup" "F: ew itunes backup" Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.3803] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup Old> thanks in advance if you can see whatever I am doing wrong??
I agree with the positive feedback provided earlier. However, it seems that the current procedure is directing both current and future backups to the E or external drive. To free up more disk space, it might be more effective to also move the old backup files to the E or external drive and configure future backups to be saved there as well. From what I observed towards the end, it appeared that old backup files on the C drive were being cut and pasted into a backup folder on the same drive, rather than being transferred to the external drive. If I’m mistaken, please correct me.
but this method -just copies/ duplicates everything to new location. i want go only to New lication and dont fill up Old location because its very low memory! (old has 15 Gb free. new has 1Tb free) my phone is 256Gb.
Thanks for the insightful information. But, I need your help. After watching your video I created a juncture and successfully backed up my iPhone. However, I had to delete my "New iPhone Backup Location" from my Hard Drive for some reason. Now, I cannot create a juncture again in the same drive. So, can please help me to delete that old juncture with the help of coding so that I can create a new juncture. Thank you in advance.
SIMPLY PRECIOUS! Thank you! Just another 2 questions: 1) Once we did this setting is made, all the future iPhone's backpas will be automatichally saved on the external drive? 2) how do I restore all content on iPhone from that backup which is now on the external drive? THANK YOU AGAIN!
Hi Please help. I keep getting an error message, "Cannot create a file when that file already exists." How do I delete the file that already exists? Thank you
I have a situation where my 512G XS Max iphone has 460G used space. I have an insurance replacement phone (because front & back are broken) that I can't use to restore from because itunes is creating a 730G back file of my existing phone (yes, instead of compressing the data at a rate of 25G to 5G compression rate at internet says itunes should do). So when I try to restore from backup the software states that there isn't enough storage space on the new iphone. I then followed this video to backup to my external hard drive and try it again where i had plenty of space. iTunes did the same 730G backup file to the external hard drive. But had same problem with itunes still not able to restore from LARGER THAN STORAGE BACKUP. So now the main problem is that after having erased the backup my computer is not recognizing the 750G available storage on the C drive. How do I recover the hard drive space. When I erased it, I did it from the C: backup location and when it completed it had also removed the 750G of used space and showed it available again on the external hard drive, just not on the C: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
How to restore from the backup created on external hdd ? Also will the bridge created will be same at the time of restoring as external hdd drive letter might change when we plug in hdd later to restore ?
The big question is can this external backup easily be used to restore your data? Nobody can seem to answer that! Apple products can be quite quirky if things are not perfect.
hello sir i have problem with my data recently i backedup my iphone data to window laptop after that i restore my data from laptop but the backup restore couldn’t done also make a different copy of my backup data in the laptop could you help me to sort out my problem please.
Ive got a problem - now it says that my Backup History is empty and I cant restore from an older Back up File - what do I do now? It usually had my back up history with older files where I could simply click on and hit "restore from this back up file"
Please help me out ! I have backed up date of my Iphone 12 pro on my pc windows 8 using itunes. However as i have switched to iphone 14 pro i want to restore backup of iphone 12 pro, but when i try to do that using itunes , i am not able to find any backup on itunes, but backup folder is there in the C drive - mobile sync folder. Please help me out to restore the backup as i have all the pics stored in that
Hi bro, I had changed my iPhone backup from c: to d: Now I want to change it to ssd drive in e: When I try this method it errors saying ‘cannot create a file when that file already exists’ I deleted the backup folder from my d: but that did not help. Now my iPhone says… this phone has never been backed up. Pls help
i backed up once, again i am opening Itunes it is not showing back up, but back up is there in C drive. What to do?? and if i again want to backup will it overwright it? Please help
So unnecessary to do all this just to change the new back up location. This should just be done as a option through iTunes. Nevertheless great video and thank you for the help!
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This should win an award for the best tutorial video on UA-cam! Thank you so much dude.
How to restore from external drive as iTunes showing no backup.
Thank you so much! This has been a problem every time I want to backup any of my ipods/iphones, and since itunes won't let you change where the backups go, this helped immensely. I've dealt with having less than 4gb free on my computer C drive for years lol
Thanks alot it does help
Very good video. I was looking for this.
Thanks Bro awsome tutorial! Big Big Thank you!
thank you 🔥
Great job 👏 easily did it thanks guru
Excellent Explanation.... Thank you
Thank you it worked!!!
How to restore to iPhone from different computer?
yeah i dont have any of the apple options
I spent hours trying to reduce my iPhone memory to do a computer backup on a C drive that was not big enough. I even explored options to repartition my hard disk to increase C drive memory, which proved to be costly. This solved the problem in a surprisingly easy manner. Simple yet specific instructions were extremely useful. You only need to invest 10 minutes of your time. I wish I had found this video sooner! Thank you!
Glad it helped!
@@Grassp.o If we will transfer the file to a new folder like as you showed in the video so can we open those files from there to have a look as if they are done or not ??
I changed location then I not get restore in iTunes 😢
@@Grassp.oHow to restore from external drive as iTunes showing no backup.
This is the best tutorial I've ever seen in my whole life of living. Even the description of the video contains explanations + time stamps.. Like how can this be so simple yet very detailed and informative and it's all done in under 10 minutes!! Thank you so much!!!
How to restore from external drive as iTunes showing no backup.
Bro how did u do all the animations and stuff, its awesome
We use camtasia! :)
Thanks Ameen! You're a Rockstar! This worked like a charm...! You explained it all so clearly!!
Thank you somuch!
@@Grassp.o Hi, really impressive content, however there is one issue if you can create or let us know regarding how to sync the songs from windows 11 pc to iPhone, have tried multiple times but couldn't done it... Including how do we take iPhone backup on window pc?
Thank you
Ravi
Can we just uninstall iTunes and reinstall it on the other drive (assuming it’s an internal PC drive / not an external hard drive)?
And then just copy and paste the backups?
Even I am also planning the same. Did you try this bro?
You are Legend bro , but why when arrives 99 Backup fails? I tried many time and different device but the same💔
Hey Grasspo. What about the backup recovery for the phone? Just click restore this back up on itunes and it takes it automatically from the new location?
or get mac > plug in iPhone > click on Sync > now your done. Takes less than 15m unless it's your 1st time.
Best Of All Love you . Thanks for the help
Does not work!! Showing an error of "Cannot create a file when that file already exists." Please help
Same here... Can you help please???
After moving the backup, has anyone tried restoring their iPhone backup (using iTunes) from the external hard drive? Does it work?? 😀
How to cancel what we did with this command??
This is such a helpful video. Ive been trying to figure this out for so long. So easy to understand. No more occupied c drive.
Ameen:
I followed your tutorial and here are the results.
All this seems to do is COPY the backup file from the old location to the new location. It doesn't MOVE it. Check the properties on the BACKUP FOLDER, in the old location, not just the MobileSync folder. The BACKUP folder is loaded with files and folders. It appears that this command zeros out the MobileSync properties, leading you to believe it's empty, when in reality it's not. It also creates, unwanted, redundancy by copying the OLD backup location to the NEW backup location.
I just finished backing up my iPhone, again, with iTunes. Both the old location BACKUP and the NEW location BACKUP have the same files and folders in them, while the MobileSync folder shows SIZE, SIZE ON DISK and CONTAINS as 0 bytes.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
Also, how can I put things back the way they were?
Thanks
Exactly, how do you reverse it, since I didn't pay attention to the original commands before changing them? I too still show contents in the "backup" folder, although MobileSync folder shows zero...
can you show us how to undo the process?
Cannot create a file when that file already exists
I had changed the backup location to an external hard disk. Unfortunately i have lost that hard disk & want to change the location back to my windows. Can you please help
I tried following the same method again but this messaged popped on the powershell "cannot create a file when that file already exists"
I would really appreciate if you can help me with this. Thank you
Your answer here 😊 ua-cam.com/video/adfH2Q8WpKo/v-deo.html
Restriction when shift + right click . What I do?
when I click enter from pwershell it says access denied...why is that? can you help me?
Please press ctrl and open powershell !
This made it to where I could back up my phone for the first time in 3 years. My computer never had enough space. Thank you.
it worked just like you said but i still have the c drive space occupied how do i delete the storage without messing up the linked backup location ?
hi.. first of all thank you, i did everything what you said on the video, but it says "You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation." can you help me?
thank you soo much bro
Hi,
Kindly clear when we take the backup from itunes incase of restore iphone ...from where it will take the file ? mobile sync or new location ?..
I am getting an error
Syntax of the command is incorrect
I removed the quotations and it worked thanks
Much needed to a long time to figure where that 120 GB was located
Cleanest explanation, you made it simple! Therefore I was able to finally make my iPhone restore backup...Respect.
Hi may I know if I wanna to restore the data will the pc smart enough to locate the old data from the new path Itunes location instead?
Followed exactly what's shown in the video. I am using windows 11 but now I have an iTunes Backup Location on 2 different places. One in the orginal directory and one in the newly created directory. They are linked because when I delete the content in the orginal directory also the file in the newly created directory is deleted. What'ss the problem and how can I solve this?
Thank You! it worked! i had been struggling the restore my iPhone from a backup and my pc dont have enough space, then i found your VIDEO!
10Q
How to restore from external drive as iTunes showing no backup. How can i restore using iTunes which i downloaded from Windows store
Even tho I didn't know about this stuff i liked it Well done bro 🙌🏻...Nice presentation ❤️
If anybody have the same problem my location is DiskC/Users/NAME/ AppData (hidden folder)/Roaming/Apple Computer/MobileSync/Backup
Thank you so so much for making this video It has helped me tremendously. I did not have even 1GB free space on my laptop until i did what you said. It works great. Be better if it backed up straight to the external devise though as I still have to delete every backup from the laptop. I am not sure if i did something
wrong or if that is correct it backs up to laptop and also sends copy to external device then you delete the one on laptop to free space???
Wow, this really helps me out. Thanks
Found this super easy to understand!! Great stuff.
Hi! great tutorial. Now unfortunately my hard drive is broken, how do I return to restore the old location to the PC (cannot open the file of the external drive as it is broken). Wanted to do a brand new back up of the phone on the PC and will then buy then a new external drive. Help!
Informative stuff! Well now this means when I'll be backing up my phone thru iTunes it'll be directly backed up to E drive okay... And one of more query will I be able to restoe the iPhone from this same E drive location?
Will the new backup be saved automatically to the other partition?
This works! and its simple enough to follow!
These videos are perfect ! clean and clear. On point. great job brother.. Keep a head !!! all the best !
great job months i am serching for such thing only you should mention that there is space between folders in code
Do I have to first backup in C drive first then follow your way to transfer to other disk?
Currently my drive C already full couldn’t backup anymore 😢
Very useful video, thank you!!! New subscriber here
straight to the point and precise!!
I keep going in circles. Can anyone help? Can you see whatever it is I am doing wrong? This is a copy and paste from my Shell AFTER I have attempted to create the junction. I get NO message saying that the junction has been created. Here's my Shell screen:
PS C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup Old> cmd c mklink /J "C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\backup" "F:
ew itunes backup"
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.3803]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup Old>
thanks in advance if you can see whatever I am doing wrong??
I agree with the positive feedback provided earlier. However, it seems that the current procedure is directing both current and future backups to the E or external drive. To free up more disk space, it might be more effective to also move the old backup files to the E or external drive and configure future backups to be saved there as well. From what I observed towards the end, it appeared that old backup files on the C drive were being cut and pasted into a backup folder on the same drive, rather than being transferred to the external drive. If I’m mistaken, please correct me.
I keep getting this error: 'mlink' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Thanks for the excellent tutorial, but please drop the annoying music :-)
Good information!
Bro you just saved my life.
My IOS update stopped at the middle for low space in C drive.
Hey ! This is such an informative and cool video 🤩🤩
Great Stuff dude
But, i need to know, my backup storage there was 50gb, what is that? any clue? i dont know that backup from
I have a question. What are the steps to undo this if I ever want to go back and back up my iphone to my C drive?
Crystal clear explanation
Superb Explanation Ever Bro thank you ❤😊
but this method -just copies/ duplicates everything to new location. i want go only to New lication and dont fill up Old location because its very low memory! (old has 15 Gb free. new has 1Tb free) my phone is 256Gb.
Are you kidding me? does Itunes itself not ask you where to backup? can't change IN itunes?
Can i use the same method using the path to GOOGLE DRIVE or only to an external hard drive?
It actually works. Thank u so much for this help 😊
Thanks for the insightful information. But, I need your help. After watching your video I created a juncture and successfully backed up my iPhone. However, I had to delete my "New iPhone Backup Location" from my Hard Drive for some reason. Now, I cannot create a juncture again in the same drive. So, can please help me to delete that old juncture with the help of coding so that I can create a new juncture. Thank you in advance.
SIMPLY PRECIOUS! Thank you! Just another 2 questions: 1) Once we did this setting is made, all the future iPhone's backpas will be automatichally saved on the external drive? 2) how do I restore all content on iPhone from that backup which is now on the external drive? THANK YOU AGAIN!
my thoughts too. did you ever figured this out
Hi
Please help. I keep getting an error message, "Cannot create a file when that file already exists." How do I delete the file that already exists? Thank you
I have a situation where my 512G XS Max iphone has 460G used space. I have an insurance replacement phone (because front & back are broken) that I can't use to restore from because itunes is creating a 730G back file of my existing phone (yes, instead of compressing the data at a rate of 25G to 5G compression rate at internet says itunes should do). So when I try to restore from backup the software states that there isn't enough storage space on the new iphone. I then followed this video to backup to my external hard drive and try it again where i had plenty of space. iTunes did the same 730G backup file to the external hard drive. But had same problem with itunes still not able to restore from LARGER THAN STORAGE BACKUP. So now the main problem is that after having erased the backup my computer is not recognizing the 750G available storage on the C drive. How do I recover the hard drive space. When I erased it, I did it from the C: backup location and when it completed it had also removed the 750G of used space and showed it available again on the external hard drive, just not on the C: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This video answering everything except for what I wanted to know, pointless
I still cannot find my backup in C drive, there’s no sucp option named Apple or Backup anywhere, how to find it
How to restore from the backup created on external hdd ?
Also will the bridge created will be same at the time of restoring as external hdd drive letter might change when we plug in hdd later to restore ?
Best tutorial ever, so understandable and easy. well done.
The big question is can this external backup easily be used to restore your data? Nobody can seem to answer that! Apple products can be quite quirky if things are not perfect.
hello sir i have problem with my data recently i backedup my iphone data to window laptop after that i restore my data from laptop but the backup restore couldn’t done also make a different copy of my backup data in the laptop could you help me to sort out my problem please.
Thank you so much... It's Life saver Tips...
When i write the cmd in the powershell a prompt shows the following Cannot create a file when that file already exists.I have not folder like that
Legend! Thanks! This really work, no bs!
Ive got a problem - now it says that my Backup History is empty and I cant restore from an older Back up File - what do I do now? It usually had my back up history with older files where I could simply click on and hit "restore from this back up file"
Can i also drag my backup to another harddrive after making it on my C-Drive?
Please help me out !
I have backed up date of my Iphone 12 pro on my pc windows 8 using itunes.
However as i have switched to iphone 14 pro i want to restore backup of iphone 12 pro, but when i try to do that using itunes , i am not able to find any backup on itunes, but backup folder is there in the C drive - mobile sync folder.
Please help me out to restore the backup as i have all the pics stored in that
Hi bro, I had changed my iPhone backup from c: to d:
Now I want to change it to ssd drive in e:
When I try this method it errors saying ‘cannot create a file when that file already exists’
I deleted the backup folder from my d: but that did not help. Now my iPhone says… this phone has never been backed up.
Pls help
Did not work "You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation."
I'm not able to find my backup location and still my data is filled up, please help!
Hi @grasspo, I am getting error.
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.
You lost me on “Open Powershell Window”. I don't have that and I'm on Windows 10 :(
I am unable to open files which are backed up.
The file format is not showing and i cant do anything
Awe, was hoping it would work on my WiFi connected server, alas no.
But c drive is occupied my storage I don't know why but occupied any solution you have please help me
Now if I want to restore the Backup from external hard drive what’s the process then
awesome and super super video thank you very much brother
Great stuff! Well done. Thx!
i backed up once, again i am opening Itunes it is not showing back up, but back up is there in C drive. What to do?? and if i again want to backup will it overwright it? Please help
So unnecessary to do all this just to change the new back up location. This should just be done as a option through iTunes. Nevertheless great video and thank you for the help!