where are my 4S pics in itunes

Hi everyone,

I know this is an elementary question, but I need your help.

I have synced my iPhone 4S to my itunes to back up all the info, but I have no idea where it is in itunes? I want to make sure all of my contacts, pictures, and movies are saved to a safe place, but I can't find them in itunes.

I really want to have my pics/ movies saved to a folder on my desktop as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

In ITunes click on your iPhone under devices and look at summary it should show last back up under settings for Backup to computer or iCloud.

Are you using a Mac or PC? I'm going assume Mac for now.

You can't 'see' inside the backup easily but you can check your address book for your contacts.

If you want to transfer your photos and movies in a way that you can view them you need to either import them into a folder using the Image Capture app or into iPhoto, Picasa or some other photo app.

Since I manually import pictures and mail, contacts, ical etc is taken care of with icloud I see no reason for keeping the 30GB+ back up file which accidentally was created just now when I clicked the sync button in itunes just messing around. As thread starter asks, where can I find this file? I want to delete it. I am using Mac.

Thanks.

I would seriously doubt a backup has reached 30gb ...

But the backups are in
Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications
or
Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications

depending on which version of iTunes/OSX you have

Nope. I have neither of those in the Music/itunes folder. I have:

Album Artwork (folder)
ipod Games (folder)
itunes library extras.itdb
itunes library genious.itdb
itunes library.itl
itunes music (folder)
itunes music library.xml
previous itunes libraries (folder)
temp file.tmp

Using Mac OSX 10.7.4 and itunes 10.6.3

Other ideas?

If you haven't let iTunes re-organise you library you could still be in the old location:
"MacHD"/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

Thanks for helping Mr. Plow but i don't have that folder "MobileSync" in the ap sup folder file either

You're certain you looked in the hd library folder not the user library ?

Yup...

What about....
Open Finder click Go menu then hold option
Library should appear. Click on library navigate to Application Support/MobileSync/

mrplow said:

What about....
Open Finder click Go menu then hold option
Library should appear. Click on library navigate to Application Support/MobileSync/

Click to expand...

Mr. Plow to the rescue. You are right. Found that file (folder). Thanks a lot!