09-04-2008, 10:32 AM
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Disable iTunes backup in Windows
I found a few solutions:
Turn off iPhone backups in Windows iTunes « onlydarksets
When the iPhone syncs, iTunes will often perform a backup that is excruciatingly slow. Mac users have an “easy” (i.e., available to anyone) way to prevent iTunes from doing backups. A less publicized version of the same method exists for Windows:
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- Quit iTunes.
- Press Win+R (opens the Windows Run dialog)
- Type or copy the following command: “%CommonProgramFiles%\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\defaults.exe” write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
- Open iTunes.
- Connect the iPhone.
- Make Sync without backing up.
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Alternatively, if you don’t want to use the command line, a company I have never heard of has released an application called “ iPhone Backup Switch“. As the name implies, it simply turns off or on iTunes’ iPhone backup process.
If neither of those work, there is also a method that involves editing the iTunesPref.xml file. |
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