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How do I disable backup function? #37

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I am trying to replace some files, and it gets stuck at backing those files up

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest iphone browser, vista home premium 32bit, 1.1.4 8 gig iphone

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by seseserg...@yahoo.com on 16 May 2008 at 9:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I would like to be able to disable backups sometimes too. Have it as an option 
in the
Confirm Delete alert box maybe.

Original comment by abenn...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2008 at 9:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Nice idea on Confirm dialog.

Original comment by NetMage....@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2008 at 6:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I would also love to not have it backup when i delete stuff

Original comment by abuthema...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2008 at 9:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Well, if the autobackup enable/disable setting will be added, may I suggest 
that it 
would have two separate settings - for file deletion, and file overwrite. 
Because I 
really find a backup function useful for overwriting the files

Original comment by r...@pisem.net on 23 Oct 2008 at 10:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
i desperately need this function.
i got 15gb of files i need to delete because of a sync interruption mess up.

i got to 10gb when the programmed messed up during backup and none of the files 
even 
got deleted :\

Original comment by SoftWare...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2008 at 2:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I agree - I had a sync-interruption corrupt ~12 GB of music files as well 
(showed up 
as "other" in itunes with no way of deleting or getting rid of it).  I used 
iphonebrowser to fix this, and it worked wonderfully, but as it required 
backing up 
of the corrupted files, it made it into a much harder task than it could've 
been.  
When I first tried it, it kept running into an error message before the 
deletion 
completed.  The cause of this, I realized, was that I only had 10GBs of memory 
free 
on my laptop HD, with 12GBs of music on my iphone.  The program would crash 
right 
about when my laptop HD space reached 0 (another problem that should be 
addressed, 
maybe with a function that checks the amount of HD space available before 
initiating 
a backup).  

What I ended up doing was deleting the individual sub-folders of the "Music" 
Folder, 
and because the program doesn't have the option to select more than one folder, 
either via dragging the mouse over several or holding ctrl or shift while 
clicking 
several, I had to right-click and individually delete ~20 folders, then delete 
their 
backups. When I had enough room on my HD to delete what was left, I deleted the 
entire folder.  This fixed the problem completely, but took about a day and a 
half of 
me occasionally checking its progress and re-deleting folders.  

I realize its my fault the files were corrupt, and my fault that I couldn't 
free up 
more than 10 GBs of HD space (pathetic, I know), so I am not criticizing this 
program, which saved me from having to reformat my iphone (thank you!), but if 
you 
were to fix the issues I mentioned, I think it would vastly improve the utility 
of 
this program and help a lot of people.  Also, anyone else going through the 
same 
process of getting rid of a corrupt music folder, what I did was rename the 
folder 
under "iTunes_Control" called "Music" to "Broken Music", deleted it, then 
resynced, 
and it automatically created a new "Music" folder.  

Thanks for reading this long post, and good luck.

Original comment by TerryMorrow on 25 Jan 2009 at 10:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The exact problem as detailed above is currently what I am in the midst of - 
11GB of
corrupt music files, of which i shall have to delete each individual as back up 
is
soo slow. There should be an overall option to turn off backup. Thanks.

Original comment by morgancu...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2009 at 10:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I just had the same issue... found it was faster just to reset my iphone and 
reload
everything. While I understand the idea behind this I really wish there was 
some way
to just disable it.

Original comment by jonasty1...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2009 at 11:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Also, the backup unnecessarily slows down the transfer process, all my files 
are 
generally backed up on my computer anyways, so there should be a way to disable 
this 
to save time.

Original comment by ankitso...@gmail.com on 21 May 2009 at 7:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Version 1.90 now supports disabling backups for the current run or as a default.

Original comment by NetMage....@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2009 at 7:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Well, if we knew, where these backups are stored, we can just delete them...

Anybody know which folder they are stored in?

Original comment by adansan...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2009 at 10:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Use the File menu to view the backup files in Windows Explorer, upgrade to the 
latest version to disable 
automatic backups (not recomended).

Original comment by NetMage....@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2009 at 2:25