Originally Posted by
bpuckering Found this online a few weeks back and its worked for me. Just type:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
into the terminal and then return. If you want to back up, just change "true" to false in the above.
Hope it helps. Oh and itunes has to be shut down when you're doing it.
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That is if you are on a Mac only.