ISync erased my phone contacts, then it erased numbers in Address Book
Okay, long complicated story, hopefully made short:
- after syncing my Motorola Razr phone via bluetooth with iSync, I noticed all my contacts were gone.
- I tried syncing again, and there was no change
- I tried removing all the files from ~library/Application Support/iSync and then tried syncing again.
- Now, all the numbers that were previously stored in my phone, are now erased from address book, as well as erasing all events I had in iCal
- I did a Time Machine backup last week, so I have a backup of the system when address book and ical were normal
- I want to restore the numbers I lost both in address book, the events I had in iCal, and also get syncing back to normal.
Any ideas on how to do this would be gratefully appreciated. This is a rat's nest that I don't know how to untangle.
I have exactly the same problem.
I am using iOS 7 and Zimbra 8 using Active Sync protocol.
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