I got tired of waiting for my iPhone to auto-backup when I quickly wanted to sync a few songs or videos before going to bed. A quick Google search brought up a bunch of results for Mac, but not much for Windows. After some searching, I found the solution to disable the auto-backup. I wrote a little program that will enable or disable the auto-backup feature in iTunes when you plug in your iPhone.
It requires .NET 3.5 SP1. If you aren’t sure if you have it, the program will let you know when you try to open it.
This program was designed and tested on Vista, though it will work fine on XP. You may have to define the locate of iTunesPrefs.xml if the program can’t find it.
If you want to disable the auto-backup feature in iTunes manually, follow these steps:
- Locate iTunesPrefs.xml by going to Start->Run and typing %appdata%\Apple Computer\iTunes and hit OK.
- Backup iTunesPrefs.xml
- Open iTunesPrefs.xml and search for <key>User Preferences</key>
- Under the next <dict> add the following:
- <key>DeviceBackupsDisabled</key>
<data>
dHJ1ZQ==
</data>- Save your changes and restart iTunes. Auto-backup is now disabled.
NOTE: Be sure that you enable auto-backup every so often to get a fresh backup. It would be a sad thing to be in a position where you have to restore your iPhone but your using a backup that is a few months old.
QuickDisable does not have any type of warranty or guarantee, you are using QuickDisable at your own risk. I hold absolutely no responsibility for any damages it may cause.
via decimation.com
This really seems to work!
As I get older, Life requires a certain kind of patience that is lost on the young. A kind of patience that realizes that all the burgeoning energy of youth will not thwart or crack the lessons to be learned in it's pages--been there, done that. This kind of patience gives way to the awareness that it is good to save one's energy and drive for the areas that are open for 'in roads' to be put within. A rock wall is still hard and still hurts just as much as it did two centuries ago.
It is age, pain, and experience that teaches these lessons and there is probably no other way to learn them than through many false starts. For some of us that wisdom is tough to come by and for others the outcome may be intuited before the chicanery is fully in swing. As for the reasons why either may be true, it may be posited that there is no way for us to see all the facets of this puzzle. The karma and intricate inter weavings of the learning---the whys and wherefores are likely seldom known to the full extent, even of the one who may repeatedly test to see that fire is still hot or that iron is still cold and hard or that when you push and force 'your way' there is usually something that pushes back whether right then or delayed for a time.
The Tao de Ching states that, "water being the softest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world". Perhaps virtues like patience and love have the same effect within the universe of human emotion. It is also said, "stand still and that which you need will come to you". It is maybe by patience and centeredness...stillness...that many needs are met. Perhaps it is not through 'the chase' that true, deep human needs and desires are always fulfilled, but maybe sometimes rather by standing still in the center of your soul perhaps you can catch the voice of God in the Silence that we all share in the Center where we are in Truth, all Conjoined.
The mind would tell us that in Patience and Silence there is no motion. The mind would have us believe that it is in the external world that our 'answers' to our dillemas are found. The mind would have us believe that we need to go out and 'do something' and that that is where our solutions lie, but do they?
The external world begs of the resources of the internal or inner world to come forth. They are clues to one another: mirrors which inspire and help the other to grow and develop if we are watching--paying attention to what is happening. If we miss it it will happen again and again, perhaps with different faces and in different places. Getting to the bottom of the learning of our own Spirit- tailored exercise in the school of wisdom can be frustrating to say the least, but with much patience and longsuffering combined with the diligent looking into the stillness of the ocean within we may find that the answers are really closer to us than Breath itself, and than in looking outside we have just merely looked beyond them where they have been the whole time---with us and in us.
It is age, pain, and experience that teaches these lessons and there is probably no other way to learn them than through many false starts. For some of us that wisdom is tough to come by and for others the outcome may be intuited before the chicanery is fully in swing. As for the reasons why either may be true, it may be posited that there is no way for us to see all the facets of this puzzle. The karma and intricate inter weavings of the learning---the whys and wherefores are likely seldom known to the full extent, even of the one who may repeatedly test to see that fire is still hot or that iron is still cold and hard or that when you push and force 'your way' there is usually something that pushes back whether right then or delayed for a time.
The Tao de Ching states that, "water being the softest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world". Perhaps virtues like patience and love have the same effect within the universe of human emotion. It is also said, "stand still and that which you need will come to you". It is maybe by patience and centeredness...stillness...that many needs are met. Perhaps it is not through 'the chase' that true, deep human needs and desires are always fulfilled, but maybe sometimes rather by standing still in the center of your soul perhaps you can catch the voice of God in the Silence that we all share in the Center where we are in Truth, all Conjoined.
The mind would tell us that in Patience and Silence there is no motion. The mind would have us believe that it is in the external world that our 'answers' to our dillemas are found. The mind would have us believe that we need to go out and 'do something' and that that is where our solutions lie, but do they?
The external world begs of the resources of the internal or inner world to come forth. They are clues to one another: mirrors which inspire and help the other to grow and develop if we are watching--paying attention to what is happening. If we miss it it will happen again and again, perhaps with different faces and in different places. Getting to the bottom of the learning of our own Spirit- tailored exercise in the school of wisdom can be frustrating to say the least, but with much patience and longsuffering combined with the diligent looking into the stillness of the ocean within we may find that the answers are really closer to us than Breath itself, and than in looking outside we have just merely looked beyond them where they have been the whole time---with us and in us.
I am thinking about this today as I lay around with my relatives in this abundance that we call the economic downturn. While it's true that many of us have been scraping our monetary butts on the asphalt, mine included, it's really nice that the holidays and that Holiday Spirit that we know so well still comes shining through! I think of those the world over that went to sleep hungry on Christmas night and thank God for the bountiful existence that I enjoy, even if it is challenging at times---it's Still Bountiful and there's no denying that.
So while we're lying around with fat bellies full of family love in environs that are warm in temperature and warm in Heart I think it behooves the Soul (my soul, anyway) to soak in the beauty of that love, and treasure the closeness of relatives and be not in a hurry to remove ourselves so quickly from those bonds of affection and back to our solitary address of operation. These times are meant for the soaking up of this togetherness and love so as to nourish us in times of famine.
For me, the lesson comes back to loving and cherishing that which you have. Family is everything. Personalities and lifestyles are supposed to be different!! It's what makes the world go around. It's the love and acceptance of one another with the differences intact that Changes the World; The family is the microcosm of that. It seems to me that peace may actually, really begin at home.
So while we're lying around with fat bellies full of family love in environs that are warm in temperature and warm in Heart I think it behooves the Soul (my soul, anyway) to soak in the beauty of that love, and treasure the closeness of relatives and be not in a hurry to remove ourselves so quickly from those bonds of affection and back to our solitary address of operation. These times are meant for the soaking up of this togetherness and love so as to nourish us in times of famine.
For me, the lesson comes back to loving and cherishing that which you have. Family is everything. Personalities and lifestyles are supposed to be different!! It's what makes the world go around. It's the love and acceptance of one another with the differences intact that Changes the World; The family is the microcosm of that. It seems to me that peace may actually, really begin at home.
