IOS4 Upgrade Wiped iPod Contents

Over the years I have never had a problem with any Apple software downloads until now. I just upgraded to iOS4 and find that all my music, photos & audiobooks are gone! Apps and Calendar are OK. Since iTunes said it was backing up the iPod before the download, where do I find the backup and how do I get it back into the iPod? Thanks for any help.
Mike

If you've lost data try this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2473251&tstart=0
If the backup itunes took at the time of updating is corrupted, ie causing various errors on restore, just move it out of the c/users/<yourname>appdata/roaming/applecomputer/mobilesync/backups folder (suggest you keep this old backup somewhere else just in case) then try the method I've posted in the link above to find a "hidden" backup folder that your OS - if you're lucky- has shadow copied.
Message was edited by: scoobiesnacks

Similar Messages

IPod Touch 3rd Gen: Battery Draining very rapidly after iOS4 upgrade.

Hello All,
Sorry for the long post:
I was wondering if others are experiencing this issue as well? I have a 3rd gen ipod touch 64gb.
Prior to the iOS4 upgrade my battery life was very decent. I would easily go a couple(2) days before requiring a full charge on the device even with modest internet, game and music use. As a rule I keep my back light as low as I can stand to conserve battery unless I'm in direct sunlight and have no choice but to bump it up in order to see.
After the iOS4 upgrade my battery life has been drasticly reduced. Going even 24 hours without plugging the device in is totally out of the question and in many cases I find myself having to plug the device into my laptop or car pretty much any chance I get in order to have uninterupted use of the device while I'm out and about. Although I've never timed my actual use, my usage habbits have not changed as far as I'm concerned.
I went so far as to exchanging the device at my local bestbuy as I purchased the blacktie protection plan which grants me an exchange of the device for "any" reason; be it manufaturer defect, accidental breakage, or anything really short of losing it. The replacement was a brand new non refurb ipod which I synced and charged fully upon bringing it home. To my suprise, the battery life is just as bad as the ipod I just turned in. I have yet to downgrade to iOS3 but am considering it if only to see if I suddenly see a great improvement of the battery life.
If anyone is having the issue or has some suggestions other then downgrading please comment. If this is an "unknown" bug/issue/flaw in iOS4 I'm sure apple would like to know about it and I'm assuming they monitor these forums for reports of these issues.
Thanks!
gutset

You are not alone. Others are having similar problems. See thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2474499&tstart=0
You can provide feedback to Apple at:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html

How do I upgrade to ios4 on my ipod touch 2G?, How do I upgrade to ios4 on my ipod touch 2G?

How do I upgrade to ios4 on my ipod touch 2G?

This seems to work now - it wasn't earlier??
Thanks

IOs4 upgrade, 3gs no longer charges on Altec radio / iPod player

Ever since my iOs4 upgrade, my 3gs no longer charges on my Altec radio / iPod player.
Any ideas?
TIA

No suggestions. Sorry. But to share the pain. 4 must be the Vista of Apple. Since upgrading my 3gs gets physically very warm, which never happened before. I can't leave the phone charging connected to my notebook via a USB cable, which I could always do before: the phone actually drains. The multitasking feature is lousy: every app I run stays on, I can't control what is running unless I physically turn off the app, which is a design defect. How do I return the phone to the old OS unless and until Apple gets its act together?

I can't upgrade my iPod touch (from version 1.1.5)

Hello there,
Sorry for my english if it's bad.
I have a problem with my very old ipod touch (i got about 2 years ago).
Yesterday i decided that i wanted to download some games and applications to use on my Ipod touch, but after downloading one for free on the app store, i couldn't synch it on my ipod.
I was told that i needed to upgrade my iPod. It had the 1.1.4 version.
So i upgraded it, and it only upgraded it to the 1.1.5 version, which seems to be a very old version.
I do have the latest version of iTunes (version 9.2) but next to the upgrade button, my iTunes tells me that the 1.1.5 version is the latest version, and that it will search for new versions only on the 18.07.2010.
I would very much like to upgrade my ipod touch so that i can use some applications on it, but i just can't, apparently.
Thank you so much for your help, i'm pretty bad with this stuff.
ps: i have a macbook pro that i bought one year ago, so my computer isn't very old either...

iPod Touch 2nd gen 32GB Mac OS 10.6.4
Since I have upgraded to iOS4, I have run into the following problems:
1: Safari crashes on many of my previously favorite websites. They start to load and whamo a back screen and then my home screen returns.
2: Very slow to open most apps. Takes many times as long as previously.
3: Slow wifi. I'm practically sitting on top of my modem and I am getting only one little rainbow bar showing. This happens at other wifi locations too, so it's not a modem incompatibility.
I have erased all of my coockies, history and cache to little avail.
I have restored my iPod from my Mac.
I have erased and re bookmarked my sites.
I'm only using up half of the RAM so its not that.
What else can I do. I love the folders, but this isn't worth it.
Thank you in advance.

IOS4 Problems with iPod Touch 2nd Gen

Hello!
Since installing the iOS4 in my iPod 2nd Gen I had many problems, the OS makes the iPod slower, the auto-lock function doesn't work, once I tell it to auto-lock after 1 minute, it doesn't, it just stays on all day, I have to do it several times and lock it manually so it stays like that.
I have also had problems with syncing music, since it doesn't play the songs, but is not a constant thing, some days are one songs, some another and is not always the same song.
Many Apps are also failing but that goes to the App developer.
< Edited by Host >

That is all fine and good except Apple pushed it 2nd gen owners as a supposed upgrade. Had we been given a disclaimer stating that it was going to half break most of our apps, we naturally would have declined the upgrade.
For the record, G2 touches did not get multitasking. All we got Folders and access to ibooks, along with a few minor tweaks, here and there. There is absolutely no excuse for how terribly slow ibooks renders PDFs, considering Looksee did a much faster and better job of it on my G1 touch.
All I really cared about was folders. It would be nice if Apple could tweak IOS4 for G2 ipods to allow for folders without decimating our Ram. If they can't then give us a convenient way to get back to an OS that actually works properly.

I upgraded my iPod Touch 4th Gen yesterday. Now it won't play music, which is the main thing I use it for. Over 11,000 songs [it's a 64GB model] -- will I actually have to restore the device and re-add all that music?

I upgraded my iPod Touch 4th Gen yesterday. Now it won't play music, which is the main thing I use it for. Over 11,000 songs [it's a 64GB model] -- will I actually have to restore the device and re-add all that music?
[Music files are still there, and I can play them on my computer directly from the iPod [just one track at a time] but not in the usual way, through headphones.]
On the Summary page of iTunes for the iPod, it shows 50-plus gigabytes of "Other" content and no music, which was not previously the case. I assume this is related to the problem.
I can bring up individual tracks on the iPod and see cover art, but cannot play the music.

iCloud is free, iTunes match is $25 a year.
I had the same problem and when I went to Settings I had 0 songs, even though they were obviously still there since I only had 15GB free on my 64GB device.
I decided to do a complete reset/restore of my 4th gen iPod Touch, Bad move! I've been messing with it for hours, and it simply won't restore--it keeps hanging on a black screen with an Apple logo and a progress bar at about 10%, sometimes it goes completely blank and tries again, with the same result. (I've posted my question/plea for help here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/19735862 )
I'm ready to bang my head against the wall! I can put the device in recovery mode, connect to iTunes on my computer, and get it back to the setup screen, but when I go through the process again and try to do an iCloud backup I get the same reset/restore loop.
I could start from scratch, but I really, really, really don't want to go through all of my hundreds of apps, reinstall them one by one, etc. etc. etc.
I thought that once I started using iCloud, I didn't need to sync with iTunes anymore--guess I was wrong.

Upgraded my iPod touch to iOS5. How do I get my music back?

Using my MacBook Pro, I just upgraded my iPod Touch to iOS5 and it erased all the content on my iPod. Now how do I get the content back onto the iPod?

Thanks for your help, but I found an easier way: Since I have about 3000 songs, a few videos and a few audiobooks, it would have taken me forever to move each item one by one. So instead, I just dragged the content categories from the iTunes library into the iPod content catgories and it worked like a charm. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

How do i upgrade my iPod touch from iOS 4.2.1 to iOS 5 or 6

Can anyone help me upgrade my iPod touch from iOS4.2 to the newest iOS possible? its model number MC086LL... I am new to iPods and the Mac/ Apple technology and have never attempted to upgrade the system.

Yours is a 2nd Gen... iOS 4.2.1 is as far as it can go.

HT5568 The last upgrade wiped out all my apps. Will the IOS6.0.1 do the same?

The last iPod upgrade wiped out all my apps. Will the IOS6.0.1 do the same?

If you update via iTunes and synced media like apps and music are not in your iTunes library they will be lost.
You can always redownload iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

How to get my ipod content recognised by my new laptop?

I have downloaded i-tunes to my new laptop. I have authorised this computer as one of my 5 devices etc... I connect my i-pod, it starts to synch, then stops.
It tells me my i-pod is nearly full, so I know it can see the content there...
but, the library on the computer is empty. I can't seem to get the content from my i-pod onto my i-tunes account on my new computer.
It tells me if i try to run the new suggested upgrade, it will delete everything on my ipod...
My old laptop is dead, so now I am stuck with an ipod content I can't replace (without buying it again) or change (without deleting it all)
What am i doing wrong here?

The ipod is not a backuip device.
The music sync is one way - computer to ipod. The only exception is itunes purchases. Without syncing: File>Transfer Purchases
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer. Use your backup copy tp put everything on the new computer.

Cant sync without wiping ipod?

Ok iv had a look at most posts now and cant find the answer i need.
Iv recently bought a new windows vista pc, my old pc no longer turns on. I have over 8k songs, videos and holiday videos on my ipod that i need to keep. However itunes wont let me transfer my ipods contents without wiping it. Any help please? I cant afford to have my ipod wiped. Iv managed to get the pictures off no problem by the usb folder in 'my computer'. Thanks alot

1). Connect your iPod to your computer. When you get the message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod.
2). When your iPod appears in the iTunes source list change the update setting to manual, that will let you use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default: Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
3). Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you only want to copy your purchases to the computer that can be done using iTunes, you'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
For everything else (including purchases) there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. You can read reviews and comparisons of some of them here:
Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
Comparison of iPod managers
A selection of iPod to iTunes utilities:
TuneJack Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
SharePod Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod2PC Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
YamiPod Mac and Windows
iPod Music Liberator Mac & Windows
Floola Mac & Windows
iPodRip Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Music Liberator Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
Music Rescue Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iGadget Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iRepo Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Access Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
TouchCopy Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
There's also a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to a Mac or PC. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available on page 2 at this link: Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide
4). Whichever of these retrieval methods you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync.
5). I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive

My itunes library is empty but i want to upgrade my ipod without losing my music. how can i do this? please someone HELP!!!

i recently got a new laptop so my itunes library is empty but i want to upgrade my ipod without losing my music. how can i do this? please someone HELP!!!

but i got music from my old laptop and my little brothers laptop so basically its no way i can take whats already on my ipod and put it on my computer and drag and drop it to my new itunes library

How do u upgrade my ipod 2nd generation?

How do i upgrade my ipod touch 2nd generation as it wont let me download apps ?

The 2G can only go as high as 4.2.1
To more easily find compatible apps:
iOSSearch - search the iTunes store for compatible apps.
Apple Club - filter apps by iOS version.
App Store: Downloading Older Versions of Apps on iOS - Apple Club
App Store: Install the latest compatible version of an app
You first have to download the non-compatible version on your computer. Then when you try to purchase the version on your iPod you will be offered a compatible version if one exists.

How do I upgrade my iPod to iOS 4.3

How do I upgrade my iPod to iOS 4.3? it wont let me download any new apps and half of them dont even work anymore and it has erased all of my pictures

To update
iTunes 10 for Windows: Update and restore software on iPod, iPhone, or iPad
A 1G iPod can go to iOS 3.1.3
A 2G to 4.2.1
A 3G to 5.1.1
A 4G to 6
Identifying iPod models

IOS4 Upgrade Wiped iPod Contents

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for