That’s why I use iTunes Match and iCloud, yet also have my music library on an external hard drive connected to my iMac. If you don’t have an Apple device or any history with iTunes, there are better ways to manage your media.Call me old school, refer to me as a dinosaur but I don’t trust all my digital data to reside solely in cloud services such as iCloud. Furthermore, it makes for an easy transition. In closing, if you have an Apple device or are switching over from Mac to Windows, backing up your iPhone is still possible using the suggestion above. Your iPhone backups will now go to C:\itunesbackup or whatever directory you have chosen. You now have a link between the two directories (the untouchable iTunes backup folder and your new symlinked folder).
For the iTunes version, open Command Prompt and type mklink /J "%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "c:\itunesbackup"with the quotes to make your symlink.Open File Explorer and navigate to %APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ ( version) or %userprofile%\Apple\MobileSync\Backup (Windows 10 Store version).This example uses cd c:\itunesbackupas the location.
In the Command Prompt, change the current c:\ directory to the new iTunes backup one by typing cd \\\ and replacing the text in the brackets.You can use Windows Explorer or Command Prompt for this step. Create a new, empty directory such as C:\itunesbackup where you want future backups to go.Make a manual backup of the iTunes directory %APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup ( version) or %userprofile%\Apple\MobileSync\Backup (Windows 10 Store version).Note: The iTunes app on the /itunes web page is now only for older versions (12.10.11 and below) since they tell you to use the Microsoft Store. You create the link at the operating system level, and from then on, anything sent to the first directory in the link (in this case, the default backup location) is instead sent to the second directory (the directory you set up). In Windows 10, a symbolic link creates a connection between two folders.
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