Where is my iphone's backup folder on my computer?

I once had a problem with my iphone and I backed it up on my computer.
Now I am trying to find one of the notes I had backed up but I can's find the folder!!!

I followed the link Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\, I reached 2 folders: one is empty and the other contains almost 5000 files with strange names like: 00b197bb1519818b8d68cbe420b52ddcfce0604b
Not sure how to open any of those files

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