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rui no onna

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I recently enabled iCloud Photo Library on my iOS devices (Download and Keep Originals). My understanding was iTunes wasn't supposed to backup photos stored in the iCloud Photo Library but when I backed up my iPad, the iTunes backup ballooned from ~2GB to ~17GB which pretty much corresponds with the size of my iCloud Photo Library.

Unfortunately, my laptop only has a 240GB SSD (M.2 2242) although it does have a 2TB HDD as a secondary drive. Help fixing iTunes backup? Failing that, is there any setting available on iTunes to move the MobileSync/Backup folder to the 2TB HDD?

iTunes 12.6 (Windows 7) - encrypted local backup
iPhone 7 256GB (iOS 10.2.1)
iPad Pro 9.7 256GB (iOS 10.2.1)

Thanks!
 
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