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Originally Posted by murraypaul
As an example where this is used sensibly:
When Zinio for the iPad was first released, it caused backups to take forever to complete, as it was backing each page of each magazine up. All Zinio magazines are available to redownload whenever you want through the Zinio app, so it greatly speeded up backups (and reduced backup size) to store the magazines in a non-backed-up area. Similarly with the Kindle app, for non-sideloaded books. They are available in your Archive anyway, to redownload if needed, so why back them up?
That is the rationale for splitting app storage into three portions:
- Permanent + backed up (eg, sideloaded documents)
- Permanent + not backed up (eg, Kindle eBooks)
- Temporary (the system can automatically recover this space if needed, used just for temporary working files)
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I understand what you are saying and agree in principle. However, I see no iTunes options for backup, unless they are hidden away. Like I said iTunes was not well designed interface-wise. And even backing up just the Apple files takes forever as iTunes is excruciatingly slow at backing up and syncing.