Archive and install worked swimmingly, but now all my prefrences are gone.

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Dan

The easiest way may be to restore from your backups.
Or, you may be able to find what you want in that Previous System folder, but that may involve a bit of hunting. This may help: Where important data is stored.

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bechosken wrote:
My friend wanted to get some music off my itunes
This is called "stealing". You do not have the legal right to give her the music you have in your iTunes library unless you are the copyright holder.
when syncing it it said she had to update her phone software first
That's not quite what it said. Someone should have paid more attention to the great big warning about the possibility of losing data if the phone wasn't backed up.
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Hopefully, your friend syncs her phone to her own computer on a regular basis. She needs to plug her phone into her computer and restore it from her last backup. That will restore it to the state it was in when the backup was made.
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