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Backup Disabler... The balance between backing up that your latest saved game or text messages and waiting an hour for your phone to sync is a delicate one. Now, you can easily sync without waiting for the backups, and just as easily re-enable them whenever you like.
Backup Disabler has not been tested with iTunes 8 or iPhone software 2.1. I highly recommend clearing out old backups through the iTunes preferences, and enabling backups before updating. If you encounter any unusual behavior with Backup Disabler and iTunes 8 and/or iPhone 2.1, please let me
Backup Disabler has not been tested with iTunes 8 or iPhone software 2.1. I highly recommend clearing out old backups through the iTunes preferences, and enabling backups before updating. If you encounter any unusual behavior with Backup Disabler and iTunes 8 and/or iPhone 2.1, please let me
What's New
Version 1.3: Major re-write, backup locking, welcome screen.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Tested on 10.5.4 with iTunes 7.7.1
PPC / Intel, Tested on 10.5.4 with iTunes 7.7.1
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Backup Disabler... The balance between backing up that your latest saved game or text messages and waiting an hour for your phone to sync is a delicate one. Now, you can easily sync without waiting for the backups, and just as easily re-enable them whenever you like.
Backup Disabler has not been tested with iTunes 8 or iPhone software 2.1. I highly recommend clearing out old backups through the iTunes preferences, and enabling backups before updating. If you encounter any unusual behavior with Backup Disabler and iTunes 8 and/or iPhone 2.1, please let me know.
Backup Disabler works by setting a hidden iTunes preference to turn off syncing.
Now, in version 1.3, Backup Disabler will also lock your backups folder when you disable backups, by removing its write permissions. This prevents accidental overwriting or corruption. The folder it automatically unlocked when backups are enabled.
Backup Disabler 2 is coming! In addition to one-button control over backups, I plan to add an archive and load feature. This will enable you to preserve your backups safely wherever you desire. Each backup will also be tagged with metadata such as date and time of the backup, what device it is from (useful if you have more than one for development), the software version, etc.
I'd also like to thank everyone who has emailed me or sent a donation (or both!). I appreciate it a lot, and that's what really makes this a lot of fun.
Lastly, there's been some interest and inquiries about a version of Backup Disabler for Windows. Fortunately for me, and unfortunately for any Windows users out there, I'm an all-Mac shop. If I find out about a similar utility for Windows, I'll post about it here.
Backup Disabler has not been tested with iTunes 8 or iPhone software 2.1. I highly recommend clearing out old backups through the iTunes preferences, and enabling backups before updating. If you encounter any unusual behavior with Backup Disabler and iTunes 8 and/or iPhone 2.1, please let me know.
Backup Disabler works by setting a hidden iTunes preference to turn off syncing.
Now, in version 1.3, Backup Disabler will also lock your backups folder when you disable backups, by removing its write permissions. This prevents accidental overwriting or corruption. The folder it automatically unlocked when backups are enabled.
Backup Disabler 2 is coming! In addition to one-button control over backups, I plan to add an archive and load feature. This will enable you to preserve your backups safely wherever you desire. Each backup will also be tagged with metadata such as date and time of the backup, what device it is from (useful if you have more than one for development), the software version, etc.
I'd also like to thank everyone who has emailed me or sent a donation (or both!). I appreciate it a lot, and that's what really makes this a lot of fun.
Lastly, there's been some interest and inquiries about a version of Backup Disabler for Windows. Fortunately for me, and unfortunately for any Windows users out there, I'm an all-Mac shop. If I find out about a similar utility for Windows, I'll post about it here.
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Reza666 reviewed on 24 Mar 2012
1. Quit iTunes
2. Fire up the Terminal
3. Type:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
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kidcrawford reviewed on 15 Apr 2011
Because it is safer to have iTunes closed when changing it's preferences I use the following procedure.
1) Close iTunes
2) Open Backup Disabler (if not already open).
3) Toggle Backup Disabler to the desired state.
4) Open iTunes
5) Close Backup Disabler (optional)
Whenever I feel it would be prudent to back up my iPhone I enable back up and let the process run overnight. Who knows how long it takes but it's always done by morning, Otherwise I have backup disabled when I synch my iPhone.
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1) Go to "~/Library/Application Support/MobilySync/Backup/" and delete the folders there (these are your Backups)
2) Make ONE full backup by syncing. This could take as long as 2 hours if you got a lot of big applications installed (e.g. Texas HoldEm, Brain Challenge, Vay etc)
3) Check the backup directory for a new folder
4) Quit iTunes. Start this application to disable Backups.
5) Thats it. Every (!) newly started backup (full or cancelled) could destroy your first backup. So do not use it unless you want a more recent backup, nut then start with deleting the old backup.
In Backup Disabler 1.3, I've added a locking feature, that removes the write permission from the ~/Library/MobileSync/Backups folder whenever backups are disabled. That way, once you get a good backup, they are protected against accidental damage or corruption.
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My suggestion: Go to "~/Library/Application Support/MobilySync/Backup/" and delete the folders there (these are your Backups). Disable your phone (Airplane mode). Then do a full backup without interruption.
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This program is great and very useful. It does not do any "hacking" into iTunes or your iPhone, it is just an elegant, user-friendly way to manipulate something that Apple set up but never provided an interface to.
Big thanks to the author for writing this!
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Dzitao reviewed on 28 Jul 2008
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This key did not exist in my iTunes plist file so I added it as a boolean and now your program works. You might want to add a check for the existence of this key and create it if it doesn't exist.
Great program, great idea! I'm very grateful as my iPhone backups have been taking close to an hour when syncing. Now the sync is very fast with the backups disabled. Add that one little tweak and you've got a winner!
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