Where is the backup file for ADB located?

[Android Central Question]

I was backing up my phone, I used Minimal ADB. This was the command I used: "adb backup -all -apk -shared -f c:\backupm1.ab" Notice that I put in a different slash on the C drive, because that's how I saw it on youtube, now I can't find the file and it takes up 8Gigs of space.

 

[Rukbat]

Depending on the version of Windows, it could be a file called backupm1.ab on the C drive (no subfoder, just the C drive folder) or it could be in the adb folder (or anywhere else, if you can't create files in the root folder of the C drive). Just open File Explorer, go to This Computer, and enter backupm1.ab in the search box.