Manually backed up iphone with itunes.. itunes said successful, but lied.
I manually backed up my iphone with itunes. It said it was successful. I then went to restore my phone..got through most of the process until I had to choose which backup to restore from and my latest backup from a moment ago was never saved? I can't find it anywhere. I'm shocked. I've checked the mobilesync folder.
So I lost a lot of things over the last 4 months. I'll have to just deal with it and move on.
I always backup before tinkering with upgrades. One thing I didn't backup was my system harddrive. I know what everyone is going to say, but I'm just really suprised that now we can't even trust a safety feature built natively into itunes.
If there's no other way to retrieve this, is there a way to prevent this? I guess next time I can triple check and make sure it's in that library folder before moving on... but GEEZ
itunes gave me the standard message. Something along the lines of "backup completed"
I actually ran diagnostics and disk utility on my harddrive about a week ago. I was just suprised that this happened. I had some trouble finding other people that had a similar problem. Only found a few from some hardcore digging via google.
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