Are those iOS backups taking up too much space on your boot drive? While there’s no built-in function in the iTunes preferences menu for moving the archive folder, it’s a simple procedure on most platforms. While others have mentioned this in the past, I haven’t come across a single page with instructions for all major operating systems. For reference, the instructions are below:
Mac OS X
- Close iTunes
- Move the existing ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ folder to the destination drive (for example, named BigExternalDrive)
- Open a command prompt by launching Terminal and create a symbolic link using a command similar to the one below, replacing /Volumes/BigExternalDrive/Backup with the path to your destination:
1ln -s /Volumes/BigExternalDrive/Backup/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/BackupWindows Vista and Windows 7
- Close iTunes
- Move the existing C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ folder to the destination drive (for example, D:\)
- Open a command prompt and create an NTFS junction point using a command similar to the one below, replacing D:\Backup with the path to your destination:
1mklink /J "C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\Backup"Windows XP
- Close iTunes
- Download and extract this junction utility to your Desktop
- Move the existing C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ folder to the destination drive (for example, D:\)
- Open a command prompt an NTFS junction point using a command similar to the one below, replacing D:\Backup with the path to your destination:
1cd Desktop
2junction "C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\Backup"References:
- Apple: iPhone and iPod touch: About backups
- TheiPhoneGuru.net: Change the Location of Your iTunes Backups on Windows Vista or 7 (iPhone and iPad)
- SuperUser: How to change iPhone backup location on windows ?
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - College students' Facebook pages might hold clues to which of them are at risk for alcohol dependence and abuse, according to a new study.
Researchers found that students who had pictures or posts about getting drunk or blacking out were more likely to be at risk of drinking problems, based on a screening test. That was not necessarily the case for students who mentioned alcohol or drinking on their pages, but not in a way that showed that they drank too much or in unhealthy situations.
It's possible that Facebook pages could help schools find out who needs to be assessed for alcohol-related problems -- although privacy and ethical concerns might make that complicated, researchers said.
The question is whether "what's being found on these sites... is actually predictive of clinical conditions," said Dr. James Niels Rosenquist, a social media researcher and psychiatrist from Massachusetts General Hospital who wasn't involved in the new study.
The findings suggest that messages on Facebook sites do seem to be linked to what happens in the "real world," he told Reuters Health.
Dr. Megan Moreno from the University of Wisconsin-Madison led a team of researchers from her university and the University of Washington in Seattle who surveyed the Facebook pages, including photos and posts, of 224 undergrads with publicly-available profiles.
About two-thirds of those students had no references to alcohol or drinking on their pages. The rest of the pages mentioned or had pictures of social, non-problematic drinking or more serious and risky alcohol use, including riding in a car while drunk or getting in trouble related to drinking.
The researchers brought all the students in for a 10-question screening test used to determine who is at risk for problem drinking. That test assesses the frequency of drinking and binge drinking as well as negative consequences from alcohol use.
Close to six in ten of the students whose Facebook pages had references to drunkenness and other dangerous drinking scored above the cutoff showing a risk for alcohol abuse and dependence, as well as other drinking-related problems.
That compared to 38 percent of students who had more minor references to alcohol and 23 percent of those who didn't mention alcohol or drinking at all, according to findings published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
In addition, close to one in five Facebook-implicated risky drinkers said they had an alcohol-related injury in the previous year.
Moreno and her colleagues proposed that peer leaders such as residential assistants could be trained to use Facebook to see who is at risk for problem drinking, and refer those students to get screening. Or, parents and administrators could talk to a school's counselors if they were worried about alcohol-related content on a student's page.
"You might have someone who, if they write in a Facebook posting about being drunk... that might be a red flag," Rosenquist told Reuters Health.
But, he added, with social media "you get very small snapshots into people's lives," so perusing Facebook pages alone might not be enough to see who needs to be screened for alcohol problems.
And there are other concerns as well, he said, including how appropriate it is to go scouting on students' pages for certain information.
Moreno said that a college RA already has a connection with students and is there to look out for them -- and this study is showing that "there is some legitimacy in approaching students that you're worried about," including if that worry is coming from Facebook posts.
But, she added, "Paying attention to people's privacy concerns is really big."
Moreno suggested that universities could have links to the health center or to online screening tests show up as Facebook advertisements for students who use terms such as "blacked out" on their pages.
"With the targeted messaging, there's not that (feeling) that someone you don't know is creeping on your profile," she told Reuters Health.
SOURCE: bit.ly/oPnFuO Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, online October 3, 2011.
So what, the universities will get access to the students profiles and send them messages either through facebook or e-mail warning them about their behavior, or suggesting some sort of intervention? I’m sure that’ll work out well. There is certainly a breach of ethics if this is permitted, and I doubt an intervention would have any benefits whatsoever. If I were identified as a problem drinker, I’d tell the people who identified me to **** off and mind their own business.
Anxiety about the economy and job security is making an impact on absenteeism, as stress is ranked as the most common reason for long-term absence, according to new research.
According to the Absence Management survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Simplyhealth employers that are planning to make redundancies see a rise in mental health problems to 51% of their workforce, compared to 32% of the workforce in those companies not planning redundancies.
The report also identifies a 50% increase in stress-related absence in the public sector, where uncertainty surrounding organisational change and the stability of the economy is making an impact, as job insecurity is a more common cause of stress, up 14% from last year to 24% this year.
Dr Jill Miller, CIPD Adviser, says: “The survey this year shows that stress is for the first time the number one cause of long-term sickness absence, highlighting the heightened pressure many people feel under in the workplace as a result of the prolonged economic downturn.
“Stress is a particular challenge in the public sector where the sheer amount of major change and restructuring would appear to be the root cause. To a large degree, managing stress is about effective leadership and people management, particularly during periods of major change and uncertainty.”
Overall employee absence levels remained consistent at 7.7 days per employee per year, while public sector absence has decreased from 9.6 days to 9.1 days.
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What happens in the brain that moment when you wake up in a hotel room and did not know where you are? Yes, the answer may come from Norway through the study of rat brains published in the latest issue of Nature.
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Research published on bmj.com today revealed that high levels of pollution could increase the risk of having a heart attack for up to six hours after exposure, however, the risk diminishes after a six hour time frame. Researchers speculate that the heart attack would have happened regardless and was merely pulled forward by a few hours. They base their assumption on the transient nature of the increased risk known as a short-term displacement (or "harvesting") effect of pollution. Although research has proven that high pollution levels are linked to premature death from heart disease, according to the authors, the association with an increased risk of heart attack is less clear. Krishnan Bhaskaran, an epidemiologist from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and his team conducted a study in which they evaluated 79,288 heart attack cases from 2003 to 2006 and hourly exposure to pollution levels. By using the UK National Air Quality Archive they investigated the levels of specific pollutants in the atmosphere, including pollutant particles (PM10), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and ozone. Bhaskaran stated that higher levels of PM10 and NO2 are well-known markers of traffic related pollution.
Seeing that there was no net increase in heart attack risk over a broader timescale, the authors argue that there may be: "limited potential for reducing the overall burden of myocardial infarction through reductions in pollution alone, but that should not undermine calls for action on air pollution, which has well established associations with broader health outcomes including overall, respiratory and cardiovascular mortality."
Professor Richard Edwards and Dr Simon Hales from the University of Otago in New Zealand say in an accompanying editorial that: "despite the strengths of the study, it is possible that a true effect was missed because of imprecise measurements and inadequate statistical power. Given other evidence that exposure to air pollution increases overall mortality and morbidity, the case for stringent controls on pollutant levels remains strong."
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The results of the meta-analysis shows that at least three servings of fish per week was 6 percent lower relative risk of stroke than those who ate fish less often. The researchers used data from 15 prospective studies with 9360 stroke cases among a total of over 380 000 people. They also looked at nine studies with results for different types of stroke, and found that the relative risk of stroke as well as a blood clot in the brain was 10 percent lower in those who ate three servings of fish per week. The researchers' conclusion is that there is a weak correlation between fish consumption and reduced stroke risk. High fish consumption results in a lower risk of stroke. It argues Swedish researchers in an analysis of previous studies. The study is published in the journal Stroke and made by, among others, Susanna C Larsson, a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institute. http://www.dagensmedicin.se/nyheter/2011/09/12/fisk-skyddade-mot-stroke/
