Yo guys...

i have a question here...

lets say i already download many apps and also buy app from itunes....
and i want to back up all the downloaded stuff...how to do this?

cause recently my PC crash...and luckily i can recover back the system up and running...

so now i plan to back up my iTunes apps download, just in case another crash happen..

is this possible?

thanks!

Copy out the folder named "Mobile Applications". That's where the apps are located in. But to be sure, make a carbon copy of your "iTunes" folder entirely, that folder also contain the "iTunes Library" file and its corresponding XML equivalent. You need those two files to recover properly when you recover your iTunes back.

Another way of doing it is using a backup app for Windows. I dont know of any, so I could not comment on that. Backup the entire "iTunes" folder and keep it somewhere safe. Restore it back once you have recovered.

On a Mac it is easy. Turn on Time Machine, and it does the backing up automatically. If the event of a Mac crashing (very unlikely), it restores from the Time Machine with a single click, and you basically just relax and watch it does its magic.

easier way is by right click on any of ur app & select show in finder/ explorer
it will bring u to urs apps folder.. copy/ backup the folder

doesn't the built in back up feature in iTunes back up apps too?

What the TS wants is to back up the entire Library of his iTunes, including his apps. What you're backing up is your iPhone or your iPod Touch, into its backup repository within the iTunes folder. What further compounds his dilemma is the fact that he is using Windows, and as customary to those using Windows, a reformat is REQUIRED to keep the system running tip top. He does not want to have to totally wipe out his HDD and redownload the apps from iTunes again, he just want to back up his apps away from the HDD that is about to be wiped out from his reformat and reinsert it back after the reformat is done.

oh okay. and iTunes backup only seems to want to back up to a dvd and not another hard disk, which is tedious.

Theres a folder specifically for apple app in your itunes folder ma. u try to backup that particular folder see can mou?

if you copy the entire itunes folder then you can do multi pc synchronization jor by paste this folder in another pc before u sync to itunes. (saw this from another forum tutorial, havent tried yet)

This post has been edited by midoban: Jan 21 2009, 03:30 PM

That is not correct. If you read the support KBs from Apple, you can even backup to you iPods, in this case, the iPod Classic, since it carries a hefty storage space. Otherwise, just grab an external HDD, and copy out your iTunes folder generally, or "Mobile Applications" folder specifically, if you're talking about the apps.

@witchqueen,
I don't think it's v appropriate for u to be putting ur iTunes gift card sales thread all over this forum. It's getting annoying!