Cannot find MobileSync folder on Monterey MacBook

I normally backup my iPhone 11 into the cloud but I wanted to try backing up onto my MacBook. I did this via Finder with a cable connection to the phone. The backup took and while but it seemed to go fine. But I then wanted to locate the folder, mainly to see how large the backup was. I tried searching for  ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/. This failed because there does not seem to be a MobileSync subfolder in the Application Support folder. I must be doing something wrong. Any help appreciated!

MacBook Pro

Posted on Oct 5, 2022 07:52 PM

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Oct 6, 2022 06:24 PM in response to Tesserax

Thanks! It is working now. But I have a feeling that the problem was even simpler. I had tried to open up a Finder window and navigated to "Application Support". For some reason this gave me a fairly limited view of the subfolders. Searching via the search button at the top of the Finder window did not give me any results. But using spotlight worked fine. I am unsure what the difference is!

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