Is this something you’d recommend if the orginal computer my iphone was synced to crashed? So, I just plunked down several hundred bucks so that Steve Jobs can tell me which hard drive on my own computer is “data”?īecause the people at the Apple (May the light shine down upon their greatness) decided to be inflexible about this, I know you’re all going to tell me why it is so much better to put data + backups on the drive with the OS (in defiance of what most system admins will tell you). No matter which library I look in on my Mac running Lion once i get to application support there is no MobileSync folder and no matter how many times i have searched my computer I can not locate this folder. Make sure you look in the proper directory, the iPhone backup files are definitely there in Mac OS X.

I need to access my iPhone backup folder and looked using the location provided, but the file isn’t there. Thanks, I make manual backups of the backup files themselves and this is helpful since it provides direct access to the iOS backup itself.

This probably goes without saying, but unless you know what you’re doing you should NOT edit any of these iPhone backup files! If you’re looking for a way to access your iPhone files through some kind of browser application rather than the Finder or Windows Explorer, you could try some of the apps out there, but many of them are poorly made in my experience. The (~) symbol signifies your home directory, which is the same place all your other personal documents are stored. Keep in mind the backup directory will have a name that is gibberish looking name of hexadecimal, do not change the backup names or they may fail in iTunes.

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