I think I just lost all my info while updating to iOS4
Hey guys,
So I left my iphone 3G updating to iOS4 during the night as the backup process looked like it would take a lot of time.
I originally created my profile on my laptop but eventually "associated" the iphone with my main computer.
So when I woke up I see the iphone already restored and then it's asking me to which profile I want to restore. So it happens my profile is NOT there!
I would really appreciate any advice you guys can give me
I'm stressing out here cause I had a lot of important stuff there
Thanks in advance
Phillip
So is this backup useless?
Unfortunately, that could very well be the case. Not watching over you while you performed various steps, obviously I can't say where or what you did wrong. So you better understand what "may" have happened here, iTunes only keeps one normal iPhone backup. It's actually an incremental backup in that only data that has changed is actually backed up. While contacts and notes are included in the iPhone backup, if you perform a sync without that same content on your phone, that content is then removed from your iPhone backup. Could be what has happened here. From your post it appears you have not been syncing your contacts to a supported application on your computer: bad idea. Had you been regularly syncing all of the content on your phone, even if your iPhone backup became corrupted, you could still restore this data to your phone.
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