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pullman

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Hello everyone

This is not the sexiest of questions – it concerns iPhone backups – so thank you for reading.

I only have the 200GB iCloud subscription and if I place my iPhone backup there I run out of space due to the photo library.

On my Mac Pro (running Monterey), have a full backup from a year ago which I would like to keep. The SSD used for my home folder is only 350GB so I won't be able to archive the old backup and create a new backup.

Another drive in the Mac Pro does have space so what I am wondering is how I go about moving the old backup from ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync to that other drive — is it as simple as drawing the Backup folder in MobileSync to the other drive?

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Thank you very much in advance
Philip
 
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