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This trick will not be for everyone, and keep in mind that should you decide to follow through your iPhone will not be backed up when you perform an iTunes sync.

Personally I can deal with a few extra minutes of sync time, and feel much more comfortable knowing that all my data is safe in a backup, but for some those extra minutes are taking way longer than they would like.

For that I would suggest to sync with iTunes just before going to bed, that way the extra time would not be noticed, but assuming that will not work just follow the directions below and enjoy a quick sync.

This command will change a hidden setting in the iTunes preferences that will force it to skip the backup process.

1. - Quit iTunes.
2. - Open Terminal.app
3. - Copy and paste this in, then hit return:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

4. - Open iTunes
5. - Plug in your iPhone (2.0 or 3G) and sync.

Moving forward, should you change your mind its a simple fix, just repeat step #3 with:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool false

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