Need help restoring iPhone 4s to an older backup file instead of most recent backup
My year old iPhone 4 was stolen a few months ago, bought the new 4s in November, but due to a broken laptop screen i could not restore the new phone to my backup on itunes. Finally had the laptop fixed and I accidentally backed up the 4s, which only had maybe 1/8th of the numbers and contacts i had in my previous phone. I'm in dire straights without the rest of these contacts.. How do i restore to an older backup copy of my old phones data?
Im running windows 7 and i found access to a file folder that looks like an overall backup file with several different backup files from different dates within:
C:\Users\<my_user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
There are multiple files inside that backup folder but only two are relevant to my issue and they read as follows:
C:\Users\<my_user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\0d7dbdee01749f0c89aa0fb2512304dc33afbee8 (most recent; backed up 1/6/2012)
C:\Users\<my_user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\1ed0d70a016d0db33221c560087e559908677a60 (backup file i want to restore to; backed up 7/7/2011)
How do i restore my phone to the backup file from this past july, and not the one from today?
Your getting into dev stuff there. stop. Right click on your iPhone name in iTunes on the left hand pane, select restore from back up and select an older back up.
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