How to delete, restore iTunes backup and change the backup location?

Sometimes, you may need to delete your iTunes backups from your computer.

When you would like to delete iTunes backup?

1. The iTunes backup take up a lot of your space so that slow down your computer. To free up the computer space, you have to delete the iTunes backups.

2. Your iTunes backups get corrupted, or not compatible with your iPhone.

3. You cannot back up your iPhone and it tell you that you have to delete the old backup first.

4. There are several backup versions that confuse you. So you have to delete the old backups.

How to delete iTunes backup?

Open iTunes, choose Edit> Preferences>Devices, choose the backup and then click to delete the backup. After you delete the backup, it will disappear from your computer.

How to change iTunes backup location?

If your iTunes backup in disk C take up a lot of space, the computer will become very slow. Your choice may be delete the old backups, or remove the backup to another partition. And you can also change the backup location to store them on other partitions or external drives.

First, close the iTunes on your computer, and locate your iTunes backups. Copy all backups and paste them to another disk.

Second, click the start menu, and type cmd.exe in the search box. Run the cmd.exe as administrator.

Third, type mklink /J “%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup” “:\iTunes Backup”.

Then you can try to back up your iPhone with iTunes and check whether it has been saved in the new location.

How to restore iTunes backup?

If you lost your data on iPhone such as contacts, photos, you can still restore them from iTunes backup via iTunes.

Steps to restore your lost data contacts from iTunes

Connect your iPhone with iTunes to backup it to iTunes; run Hudun iPhone data recovery master on your computer.

Your iTunes backup will show up on the software. Choose the backup to scan and preview the iTunes backup file. All the contents from iTunes backup including photos, contacts, messages, notes, videos, and ,messages on apps will be displayed here in detail. You can preview the detail information. If you use the Full version, you can preview and recover all the data.

Check the files you need and them click the Export button to save them on your computer.

Check the recovered files in the folder. The contacts and text messages are recovered in the form of html page, the voice is in mp3.