Contacts not saved in itunes

I just swapped my 3g yesterday for a new one...the other one was giving me tons of fits and bad service. Everything except my calendar and about 40 of my contacts tranfered to the new phone after I connected to itunes...luckily I was able to get my old phone back from the store before they shipped it out and got my numbers. Anybody have any idea why it did this? I've got the latest software and I synced it the day I took it back. I'm kinda confused.

Although contacts and calendar events are included with your iPhone's backup that is created and maintained by iTunes along with other data, it isn't a good idea to depend on your iPhone's backup alone for this data. Contacts and calendar events are designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer.

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on a
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Regards,
Vidar
email: [email protected]

I solved the problem.
ITunes preferences are stored in a hidden directory here:
C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Programdata\Apple Computer\ITunes\iTunes.pref
(Programdata might be called something else in the English version of XP, I have the Norwegian version...)
Close ITunes.
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iTunes.exe:MP3 Encoder:Custom
iTunes.exe:MP3 Encoder
Start ITunes. Set your desired import bitrate.
It should now be saved - and be picked up again next time you open your preferences.
Actually it was saved all the time, but something corrupts this file disabling ITunes from picking up the correct mp3 encoder settings. I guess the 160kb/s setting is the default showing up when no settings are present.
Hope this works for others having this problem as well!
Regards,
Vidar

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lhaw wrote:
the only thing that works is setting up a new user and logging in there. Most of the problems seem to go away but all my files, itunes library, etc are under my other user.
so, anyone have any ideas? if not, is there an easy way to transfer all my files, itunes library (hopefully including playlists!), etc?
Sounds like something malicious or malfunctioning in your user.
What you can do is use the Grouping or other tag feature to tag all your songs in certain playlists, this will apply to the song file itself.
For instance I have music grouped like this:
Popular 00's Medium Hits
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Blues 70's Medium Hits
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No you don't have to go through all that. Something to think about in the future when you switch machines or need to transfer to another user.
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iTunes Music Library.xml
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#74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
this is a by-pass to the cydia/saurik restore server, it has nothing to do with jailbreaking over voiding apple's warranty
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