itunes, "A full backup of your iphone will be stored on this computer", but where??

[Applet]

where are all media, photos, videos, mp3s, etc stored when select "Backups" in itunes, "this computer" "A full backup of your iphone will be stored on this computer" is selected. my hard drive on my mbpr is almost full now, so l like to find this stuff and put in an external HD.
thanks

 

[chscag]

Questions like that are answered by the Apple knowledge base articles. See the following article: LINK

 

[Applet]

I went to ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ and saw the backup, it is 6.42GB , but l can't see any of the media, only strangely named folders and files, eg in "Backup" folder there are folders called: ac679dcab665d4f38d4470943e793c38d6cd31b4" for eg, and in these folders are files called "0d0948cfc643ac18d14559f3524d05b6d9dae8c" for eg , so where are all the pics so l can free up some space in my internal HDD by putting in external drive. There is now only 1.93GB available in 250GB capacity, does this mean my internet and computer performance is slowed down?

 

[vansmith]

I went to ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ and saw the backup, it is 6.42GB , but l can't see any of the media, only strangely named folders and files, eg in "Backup" folder there are folders called: ac679dcab665d4f38d4470943e793c38d6cd31b4" for eg, and in these folders are files called "0d0948cfc643ac18d14559f3524d05b6d9dae8c" for eg , so where are all the pics so l can free up some space in my internal HDD by putting in external drive.

The backups are stored in a way that is intelligible to iTunes (which ultimately manages these) and iOS - they aren't meant to be user readable.

There is now only 1.93GB available in 250GB capacity, does this mean my internet and computer performance is slowed down?

Yes, that'll slow down performance of your Mac (significantly so). You'll want to try and keep at least 10-15% disk space free.

 

[Applet]

The backups are stored in a way that is intelligible to iTunes (which ultimately manages these) and iOS - they aren't meant to be user readable.

Yes, that'll slow down performance of your Mac (significantly so). You'll want to try and keep at least 10-15% disk space free.

oh, theyre not readable on the computer, except when they are transferred to an iphone?

l noticed that my internet speed tests are significantly slower. is that related. my start ups are ~ the same, ~15secs