Backup Question

[mccoady]

Let me see if I can explain this my wife and I share our office desktop computer (PC) but we both have our own User Accounts. On my wife's User Account I set up iTunes with her own Apple Account and under my User Account I have iTunes set up with my own Apple Account. My wife got an iPad Mini for Xmas and I got an iPad 4 but she decided to return her white one for a black one.

Ok before I sent hers back I backed it up in iTunes to our computer but didn't realize until after I had sent it back I had backed it up in iTunes under my User Account instead of hers. So when I open iTunes under my User Account I not only have my iPad backed up but also her iPad Mini.

I hope this is all making sense since I backed up her iPad Mini in iTunes under my User Account if I restore it from there will it link her iPad to my Apple account? If so it looks like I would be better off setting it up from scratch again.

[cjmnews]

I don't think the iTunes account of the iTunes Store has any bearing on the backup. The iTunes store link for the iPad is inside of the backup.

I would restore the new iPad with the backup you made on your account. Then I would switch to your wife's account and sync it. Once that is complete, I would delete the backup under your account.
C:\Users\<login>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup is where they are. You can tell the differences by date. The date on the directories changes based on the last sync and backup.

[mccoady]

Many thanks I will try what you suggested!