backing up iPhone in iTunes. Where does Backup go?

[space-time]

I am backing up wife's iPhone to iTunes (using her OS X account) and iTunes says it finished backup, but iTunes folder is only 3.8 MB (Mega Bytes) and she has about 14 GB of stuff on her iPhone (capacity 28, available 14).

This can't be right.

EDIT: iPhone 5, iOS 10.3.3, OS X 10.9.5, iTunes 12.6.0

EDIT 2: apparently they go here

~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

I think they used to go into iTunes folder a while back... but I am not sure. Now where can I find the Apps? I want to manually move one App from her old iPhone to new iPhone.

[space-time]

I found an older mac with 10.9.5 but an older version of iTunes (11.3.1). Now I get this:

iTunes could not connect to the iPhone “space-time's iPhone SE” because an invalid response was received from the device.

[jdc]

Can you just backup to iCloud?

[space-time]

No, I do not want to do iCloud for this task, it would mess things up even more.

[jdc]

I guess? Its just a backup, whether it goes to your local mac or the cloud... same thing?

[space-time]

No, no, I do not want iCloud.

I want to be able to backup (I found whenre backup go) but I cannot located the App files. In the past i was able to locate the App files.

[testcase]

I too do NOT want to sync iTunes "to the cloud". It seems mac OS sierra drops iTunes from your computer. Someone here posted a link on how to get iTunes back on your Mac but, it didn't work for me.

Apple NOT EVERYBODY had cheap, fast internet available. Stop farking those of us who live in the real world! :villagers:

[NewtonMP2100]

....baby got back..........up.....

[ka jowct]

testcase wrote:
I too do NOT want to sync iTunes "to the cloud". It seems mac OS sierra drops iTunes from your computer. Someone here posted a link on how to get iTunes back on your Mac but, it didn't work for me.

Apple NOT EVERYBODY had cheap, fast internet available. Stop farking those of us who live in the real world! :villagers:

Sierra does not drop iTunes, nor does High Sierra; however, iTunes in the latest version no longer backs up apps locally. This is not necessarily a mistake, since iTunes had become a bloated app being asked to do too much. But some alternative that allows local app backup is needed. I think iMazing can do this.

The Apple fantasy is that apps always get better, the latest is always the best, and everyone has affordable broadband.

[NewtonMP2100]

....to the back of the bus.....???