Is there a way to tell iTunes not to backup the contents of the apps documents folder?
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A:
Read this section of Apple's documentation. The folder Documents/ is automatically backed up. If you don't want a file to be backed up, you need to put it in either Library/Caches/ or tmp/.
You can't change behavior of apps if you don't have the source code of the app.
Yuji
2010-09-17 03:19:09
I have the source code for the app. The app stores lots of pdf files in the documents directory. What I was hoping for was to give the user a setting to allow them to backup the contents of the documents fodler or not. Is there a way that I can do this?
2010-09-17 03:55:56
No. But you can save the PDF files in the `Library/Caches/` or `Documents/` depending on the user setting.
Yuji
2010-09-17 04:08:52
I have seen an app that does this. Im guessing that when a user toggle the backup value it moves the documents from caches to documents and vice versa.
2010-09-17 04:50:29