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I just updated my Windows Phone 7 and I noticed that I lost quite a lot of disk space in the process as the phone backup hit my local machine.

Just in case you're like me and hadn't quite planned for backing up your phone onto your hard drive (I'm running low on disk space), the phone backup seems to dump a lot of 4K data files in;

c:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows phone update\

I’m blogging this here in case anyone else is trying to find that location. As an aside, I used windirstat to find those files as I couldn't seem to find a parameter to tweak for the backup file location.

The Phone update's looking good though :-)

Posted Thu, Apr 7 2011 4:58 PM by mtaulty
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Rupert wrote re: Windows Phone 7–Backup Location/Disk Space
on Thu, Apr 7 2011 7:12 PM

Thanks for the info Mike, as far as you know is there any way of changing the location of the backups - don't really want all that data clogging up my SSD.

mtaulty wrote re: Windows Phone 7–Backup Location/Disk Space
on Thu, Apr 7 2011 11:30 PM

Rupert,

I'm not sure - I haven't found it yet. To be honest, I hadn't realised what was going on until I started the update process and notice my hard drive free space grow by 6GB when the update deleted the previous backup and then shrink by 6GB when the new backup was taken.

I needed that 6GB so I went looking for it.

Mike.

Shina wrote re: Windows Phone 7–Backup Location/Disk Space
on Fri, Apr 8 2011 7:54 PM

Hello Mike,

Thanks for the Information. So, did you delete the files? If you don't mind my asking... I am about to do just that, and I wanted to be sure I won't run into major issues as a consequence.

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