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Disable automatic backups but retain manual backups
Authored by: owaters on Aug 04, '08 08:48:07AM
To disable automatic backups, but keep the ability to manually backup via the contextual menu (presented when right clicking the iPhone icon in iTunes) follow the steps below:

1. Quit iTunes.
2. Open Terminal and enter the following command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
3. Then enter this next command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool false
4. Relaunch iTunes

The AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled hidden pref is only available in iTunes v7.7.1+

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Disable automatic backups but retain manual backups
Authored by: PizzaCake on Jul 16, '09 10:23:32AM

great! these commands seem to still work with v8.2.1. for some reason my ipod touch takes hours to back up 500MB of data



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