Iphone contact backups

After backing up and then updating (iOS 4 to 5) my wife's iPhone in iTunes on her PC (Vista), only about half of her contacts appeared on the phone. Unfortunately, after realizing half the contacts were missing, I synced her iPhone again. Well, this simply saved the contacts that remained on her iPhone. Then I thought I could restore the earlier backup file (from the first time I had synced and upgraded that evening). Well, when I looked for the backup file on the Device menu (Preferences), only the most recent one showed up. The earlier backup file was missing. I did look on her hard drive (Drive C...Mobile files...) and only saw a bunch of files all dated around the same time as the most recent backup. The files from earlier that evening were not there.
She does not have any other backup of her contacts. Is there anything else that we can try to recover the missing contacts?
Help, please.
Thanks.

Sorry I posted terrible info here but luckily if done like I said it shouldn't harm it. This is the correct way to put iPhone into recovery mode and ATTENTION IF YOUR READING ABOUT RECOVERY MODE! :
1. You will need your computer on and ready.
2. Turn your iPhone off like you normally would
3. Next hold down the home button while you connect iPhone to the computer but do not let go!
4. When the itunes and USB symbol appears (like the one on screen when the iPhone is new) you can let go.
5. A message appears on the computer on iTunes (if it doesn't launch launch it now) about recovery mode and if it asks choose restore or if it doesn't click restore yourself in the summary tab.
Hopefully this will be more successful than before but if is totally screwed iTunes wise then turn the iPhone off by holding the sleep button down and then turning back on as usual but if for some reason this doesn't work reset it by holding the sleep and home buttons down until the apple appears.
If you can use Mobile Me it could be a very good short or long term solution seeing as it's free for two months which would be enough for it to sync all your unsynced contacts and if you like it it's only £60 a year but this is no substitute for iTunes and regular backups as you have found out; although I'm still surprised it happened.
Sorry once again about the bad info in my last post, Rich

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The iPhone is not intended to be sole storage of contacts.
There is no one specific folder that can be used to recovery anything from an iOS backup.
The backup has one purpose, to restore an iOS device. Restores are ALL or nothing.
The iTunes folder does not contain the backup. Not sure why anyone would tell you such a silly thing.
Where are iTunes backups stored on your computer
The folder where your backup data is stored depends on the computer's operating system. Make sure the backup folder is included in your data-backup routine. iTunes places the backup files in the following places:
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
The "~" represents your Home folder. If you don't see Library in your home folder, hold Option and click the Go menu.
Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
To quickly access the Application Data folder, click Start, and choose Run. Type %appdata% and click OK.
Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
To quickly access the AppData folder, click Start. In the search bar, type %appdata% and press Return.

IPhone contacts backup

Hi
Just got a 3GS - Ive noticed when I right click the iphone device in itunes that it says "back up iphone". Which I have done. What exactly does this back up and where is it stored? (Is it easy to to a restore with this backup?)
Within the iphone menu (through itunes) there is a section in the Info tab which relates to contacts where it says "Sync Contacts with...".
I have left this unticked. Do I need to have this box checked to back up my contacts? Im a little scared to do it in case it syncs my contacts on the phone with whats on the computer - which is nothing, and wipes all contact data on my phone. (Kind of like what happens when you sync an ipod with a computer that has a blank library.)
Advice please?
Ps - Are any of the contacts stored on the sim with the iphone? What data is actually stored on the sim?

This article explains what is stored in the iphone backups and where the backup is located on your computer.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
The iphone is NOT a backup device and your contacts should be stored on your computer and your computer data SHOULD be backed up.
To merge the contacts on your phone with a supported application on your computer(Outlook, Address Book/Outlook Express), do the following:
Make sure that auto sync when an ipod/iphone is connected is disabled under preferences in itunes.
Place at least one contact in whatever supported application you use on your computer, it can be fake, it doesn't matter.
Connect your phone with itunes running, DO NOT SYNC!
Right click the phone in the device pane & select reset warnings, this should generate a merge prompt when you sync.
Under the contacts tap in itunes, select the application you want to sync your contacts with and select all.
When you now sync, you should receive a pop up regarding your contacts, asking to merge or replace. Select merge and your phone's contacts will populate the supported application on your computer.
The iphone does not support storing contacts on the sim card.

How can I backup iphone contacts/email/addresses and transfer them to PC ea

Hey,guys!!!i have one quick question about my iphone contact backup ...
I have an iphone that has all my contacts stored in it.... (phone numbers, email, addresses, etc...) and I recently
bought an new computer, but I don't have any of this information stored in it.
My question is, how can I sync my iphone with to my PC without erasing the info in the iphone. I don't want my system
to think that since the PC is empty it should erase every contact in the iphone. I just want to transfer everything
from iphone and have a copy on PC,especially the contacts.
Appreciated your early reply.

Maybe you should go Discussion-Apple to look for what is iTunes user directions about how to backup your iphone.
Other than there are also a tool called Contacts Tool search iphone applications,and it will help u a lot if u want to transfer the contacts to computer.Like Out2003 or Outlook2007...
Outlook 2003:
1. In Outlook, choose Tools > Options.
2. Click Other and then click Advanced Options.
3. Select COM add-ins and select the iTunes sync add-in and click OK.
4. Click Apply and then continue with the steps below.
Outlook 2007:
1. In Outlook, choose Tools > Trust Center.
2. In the Categories pane, click Add-ins.
3. In the Details pane, locate the iTunes add-in in the "Inactive Application Add-ins" list.
4. In the Manage box, click COM Add-ins, and then click Go.
5. In the COM Add-Ins dialog box, select the iTunes sync add-in.
6. Click OK.
Besides,if you are always frustrated the directions of iTunes and Outlook.I want to give your advice to try out other professional transfer contact software.As far as i concerned,you can download the [trail version|http://hotdownloads.com/trialware/download/Downloadtanseeiphonecontact_.exe?item=13181-12&affiliate=575053&sscoupon=SOFT-QSTG] of [Tansee iPhone Transfer Contact|http://www.softwarebbs.com/wiki/TanseeiPhone_TransferContact] for free,which can help you back up your iPhone contacts along with contact photos to computer as a file (either txt or antc).
Hope you have a wonderful time.
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The easiest way that I have found is to open Outlook, go back to Itunes & select your phone.
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Image attached may explain better.
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You can follow the instructions in the page you linked from: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109 to transfer everything from your old phone to your new one. If you only want to transfer contacts and you still have your old phone (or if the contacts are already on your computer) you could sync the contacts as described in: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12317
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I had a iPhone original, which unfortunately got dropped in a Pint and died (**** non-removable batteries).
When I synchronized my phone with iTunes I always thought that it backed up my contacts into Address Book. Unfortunately it hasn't done this and I need to somehow get my contacts list back.
Researching into this problem i managed to find the iPhone backup file iTunes creates. Is there anyway to extract the names numbers from this file (I think its a SQLite file), or copy the contacts to a Nano 4th Gen.
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When syncing if you have selected contact information to be synced with the Address Book on your Mac under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences, this is a bidirectional or true sync process with the Address Book, or should be, not a backup process. Contact information on your iPhone is included with your iPhone's backup, which is created and maintained by iTunes as the very first step during the sync process.
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http://homepage.mac.com/vaughn/msync/

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Maybe you should review the users guide:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

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Try to connect in recovery mode to restore, without using the latest backup, explained here:
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