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Search Files in iPhone Backup on Mac
Can I search for information in iPhone bakcup on Mac? The backup was created with iTunes.
✍: FYIcenter.com
Yes, you can search for information or files in iPhone backup created by iTunes on Mac
as shown in this tutorial:
1. Go to "/Users/{userid}/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup" folder. You see a list of Backups.
2. Go into the lastest backup. You see a list of files named with 40 hexadecimal digits organized into sub-folders of "00, 01, 02, ..., ff" based on their first 2 hexadecimal digits.
fyicenter$ cd ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup fyicenter$ cd 45219035443f09dccbcc469473f487ca5aee9f5a fyicenter$ tree | more . ├── 00 │ ├── 000066a0006d022b601b82aa424925edf36621b9 │ ├── 00019983bebec182aef65f21253ef6b4fc919f7f │ ├── 00019ae96e2031b8c3bc7b3fdc5cb5088f10c522 ... ├── 01 │ ├── 01023a6680f60e33e33367f0fa90d422bbc3e0f9 │ ├── 0103f8d5216d8da292257950a1fbfdb8106ea806 │ ├── 01053454ce3cd93f880d70b2fbfe42269b641bd4 ... └── ff ├── ff00c72413e8367730ffd032c339757d3a5b3f5d ├── ff02ae430bab4659d7d424d3795f56fec02975e6 ├── ff03e7b19868eb32f372e25168f1a73d8801945f 256 directories, 45512 files
3. Double click on some files, you may see one of the followings:
4. Search for 20 largest files in the backup. You may see some files are bigger than 100 MB. They are most likely video files.
fyicenter du -a -k | grep -e "\/.*\/" | sort -n -r | head -n 20 212448 ./98/988474d25cb42f07ce3c2c81e20405c79470da61 143012 ./70/7098a4c404482fa8906421fe6d4ae03a3c9a4da7 140240 ./98/981df18667485d2dd7c85461d07efb70d4d90501 91292 ./b4/b4b8c82cbb72873a25577ded534d38ab16db4884 67568 ./b7/b720d84892451b1b845ffe5076a4cb34e923aa5d 57028 ./12/12b144c0bd44f2b3dffd9186d3f9c05b917cee25 ...
5. If you are looking for music files, you can copy files with 1 to 10 MB to temporary folder and search for the MP3 signare 0x494433. See https://www.filesignatures.net for other file signatures.
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