Lost all contacts, photos, bookmarks, notes
my 3g was useless running 4.0 so I downgraded (upgraded?) back to 3.1.3.
I was sure to sync/back up before doing so.
but now I've lost almost everything. anyway I can restore this? where on my mac may the info be hiding. thanks for any help you can send my way.
Downgrading the firmware is not supported by Apple, so Terms of Use prohibit further discussion.
You'll have to find help elsewhere.
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Her contacts would be wherever she put them
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Hi there,
I have updated my iphone 3gs to ios6 because many new app required io5 or ios6.
I back it up but after the update the backups are gone.
I searched on my computer with files names, etc, but everything is GONE, pictures, contacts, apps, messages, nothing. I have a brand new iphone with io6 (will count for the great statistics of apple) but as customer I feel ready to something else (non apple) if I do not manage to get back all I had on my iphone.
I looked in other threads but their solutions did not work for me.
Hope someone can help me.
Thanks in advance!All contact information from your iphone is stored in you itunes backup.. Anyone trying to tell you otherwise either has not had the benefit of experience, or is trying to coerce you into using the cloud..
You can pay $40 to $100 for a program that can acces the contact info..
or you can use freeware to extract the backup , browse it for the contact information and convert it into a document which you can then open and manually copy your contacts from..
Even if you have a newer backup on your computer, the old information may still be in there..
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The same thing happened with me. I was updating my husband's iPhone 3GS to iOS 5, and it lost his calendars and contacts. When I did the update, I let it do a sync and backup first.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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As far as I know you can't delete the primary email address for an iCloud account. It's assigned when the account is created. But your neighbor wouldn't have been able to get into your iCloud account without your Apple ID and password. Are you sure the account wasn't still on your phone when you gave it to him?
You could migrate a copy of your data to a new iCloud account but I would still be concerned that someone else was using my old account, which presumably still has your data in it.
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since iCloud downloaded, mac pro has not been able to sync, unable to save info, bookmarks, lost all contact info, gives wrong info on laptop status, help please
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Syncing does not do this. What was really done?
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Hello JimS19,
I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues with your iPad. If you are having issues accessing your Shared Albums from your iPad (but not from your other devices), you may want to double-check your iCloud Photo Sharing configuration as outlined in the following articles, just to make sure it hasn't changed:
iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ - Apple Support
Get help using iCloud Photo Sharing and shared albums - Apple Support
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Ok this is bizzare!
Thank you for your response, I went throught each and every step without any luck, even got the recovery programme, and painstakingly tried to sift through all that mumbojumbo to find what i needed. finally found the bookmark bit, but it had been fully overwritten :(, so on reading about previous ff versions, found the sqlite thingys, and they were relatively unscathed(partly written over, but saveable apparently TG), saved them to adiff drive, amongst other possibly good folders. Then looked up how to install them, and it said to close FF, and install to profile folder.
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What does "I caught my phone 4" mean?
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