Windows 10: Symbolic link question for itunes backup. Symbolic link seems to have been overwritten....

So, I created a symbolic link a while back to force itunes to backup data from an iPhone to a secondary internal hard drive. I understand this is a Windows forum, but perhaps somebody can help.I initially was able to save the backups through windows 10 to the secondary hard drive. However, for some reason, windows or itunes or a combination has changed so the symbolic link stopped working.I do not have room for these large backups to be saved on the windows hard drive.The command appears to be correct. Please advise regarding how to fix it if possible. thanks.

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Symbolic Links (Soft Links)

Greetings,


I have a large number of symbolic links (soft links) on my PC that I want to migrate to a new machine with an identical directory structure. When I use various backup or copy programs that clone files (bit copy), the symbolic links do not work on the target machine (they get converted to empty files instead of links). Any help would be appreciated.

 

Symbolic link (Junction/s), how-to mklink? Please help with Junction?

Hi all, having been a member at Seven then Ten forums for a fair while I'm hoping to find a straight answer here..? Apologies in advance if this is too verbose.
Windows 10 system booting from (UEFI) NVME with 2xSSDs + 2 MHDDs for storage...

An application (Xperia Companion) which will not let me select or personalise the location for saving backups of my cellular phone data...

Think I found a fair definition of the differences at the Computer hope site which would suggest it's a Junction I need:

I want Xperia companion to save backups to F:\Sony Backups NOT the default C:\Users\GD\Documents\Sony. Would the Junction (link) allow me to to fulfill my wants and could someone please demonstrate the mklink commands needed?

with thanks and regards,
Dave

 

Creating a symbolic link on Windows 10 for iTunes iPhone backup

Hello all, I have a question that I have been having a hard time finding an answer for by just searching the web. I am trying to create an mklink for my iTunes backup directory so that I can store my iPhone backups on my much larger HDD d: drive rather than
my SSD c: drive. My default backup location is "c:\Users\****\Apple\MobileSync\Backup\". The location that I have attempted to send the backup files to was "d:\Users\*****\iTunesMobileBackup".

However, when I open command prompt (and I did this with Run as Administrator) and type in this command-

mklink /h "c:\Users\Strider\Apple\MobileSync\Backup" "d:\Users\Strider\iTunesMobileBackup" I will then get an error reading "The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive".

I have also tried entering in the command- mklink /d "c:\Users\Strider\Apple\MobileSync\Backup" "d:\Users\Strider\iTunesMobileBackup" and it will successfully create a symbolic link. But when I do this, I will have the files from my iPhone backed up on both
the c: and d: drives, which is not at all what I want.

I have had success with using symbolic links before in video game directories such as Skyrim, which has some huge texture mods that I have installed to my d: drive, but are detected by my c: drive after dropping a symbolic link in the correct path for the
game files. Why am I having such a hard time with iTunes?

Thanks, Mike