IPhone and Outlook sync, lost contacts.

Hi, i recently did a clean sync of my iphone contacts with outlook since then i added 15 contacts or so. Today i synced my iphone again and my contacts have disappeared from both outlook and my iphone apart from the 15 or so i added since my first sync. I have tried to restore my iphone from a back up but it did not solve the problem. Was wondering if someone could help me get my contacts back.
Thanks in advance, Sami.

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The problem is neither of those links help with wireless syncing or active sync. We are having the same issue. We have two users in particular who were both on Outlook 2003 and Windows XP SP3. They are both now on Outlook 2007 and Windows 7 and the issue is still occurring. We are running MS Exchange 2003. Re-creating their account on the iPhone temporarily fixes it (until a new calendar entry), but it inevitably comes back.

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You should post this in the iPhone or iPad forums.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/iphone
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ipad
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I did a sync on Thursday and I lost almost all contacts (except 12 contacts) on both iPhone and Outlook. Only 6 of remaining 12 contacts were new entries since last syncing. So, some old contacts stays and most of got ereased. I tried to search for possible solutions with no luck. I got my iPhone in Asia to be able to have Chinese character input. I am traveling now and it looks like I dont' have a backup file of my outlook.
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Need help ASAP.

Not sure what happened here, but I'm not aware of an iTunes prompt to sync an iPhone that is connected. Each iPhone includes a preference setting to automatically sync with iTunes when connected - which I recommend turning off. This is selected under the Summary tab for your iPhone sync preferences. iTunes includes a preference setting to not automatically sync and iPod or iPhone when connected. This is a personal choice, but I prefer manually syncing, or syncing when I want to in case I want to make any changes before my iPhone is synced.
I assume your Father does not maintain a backup of his Address Book data on his Mac, or any other important data? The Address Book application includes a simple and quick backup Address Book option which is important to use when syncing any device, but is important regardless in case a problem arises with the Address Book database.
On your Father's Mac, with the Address Book application quit, go to Home > Library > Application Support > AddressBook.
Within the Address Book folder, move the AddressBook.data file to the Desktop.
Change the name of the AddressBook.data.previous to AddressBook.data or remove the .previous extension from the file name so it is AddressBook.data only.
Cross your fingers and launch the Address Book application. If the Address Book data is not restored, and your Father does not have a backup of his Address Book data, the data is lost.

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It should all be on your computer in whatever program you have been syncing.
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The "system" performed as designed. All devices syncing to one iCloud account are kept in common sync. The idea is that all such devices belong to one user. Different users should have different iCloud accounts. Once your contacts were edited, all devices were updated as well and subsequent backups (from yours and her device) reflected the changed contacts (and any other data that may have been edited like calendars). Your first task is to change your daughter over to a new account before she makes other changes.
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I currently synchronize my calendars between my iPhone and Outlook via the USB connection between my computer and the phone. I tried to do the calendar synchronization through the iCloud, as that looked really slick, but I didn't like some of the side effects, so I went back to synchronizing directly between my computer and my phone. It seems like to synchronize the contacts, the only option is to use iCloud, but I don't know if I can do that only for the contacts and not have my calendar involved? Any suggestions on how I do this?

Hello there, kenw100.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up how to turn iCloud features on and off on your iOS device:
iCloud: Change iCloud feature settings
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2613
Turn iCloud features on or off
Depending on which device’s settings you want to change, do one or more of the following:
On your iOS device’s Home screen, go to Settings > iCloud, then tap to turn on or off iCloud features.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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