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Everytime you sync your iPhone using iTunes it will try to make a full backup image of your phone. This is a great idea but it takes AGES and personally if my phone was to break I’d rather restore to a blank OS anyway. I assume this will work with the iPod Touch as well.

Here’s how to stop this automated process, courtesy of ZeroLogic.

- Quit iTunes.
- Open Terminal.app
- Copy and paste this in, then hit return:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

Changing ‘true’ to ‘false’ will enable the backup process again, if needed.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 6:57 pm and is filed under Backup, Fix, Guide, Tip, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.