iPhone

B

Boulevard44

Registered
I recently lost my hard drive on my iMac G5 (2005 Tiger OS). Fortunately, at that time, I had backed up my address book onto my iPhone 3Gs.
Yesterday, I tried to regain my contacts from my iPhone back onto my iMac, instead, it deleted all my contacts from my iPhone. Is this reversable?
 
Restore to your AddressBook backup from any other place you have it backed up.

If you have a copy of the old hd, in it ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook contains your user data.

With 10.4 I don't think you have a time machine setup.
Would you have a backup at .mac/.me?
AddressBook > File > Export > Address Book Archive... does a simple backup.

I switched to using that when in 2003 after a mobile phone sync gone wrong, every single phone number of all my contacts that had a US (or US format) phone number disappeared. So any time I do any major sync I make a backup first, just in case.
Note to self: hmm, perhaps I should sync more often .. to prevent damages of losing contacts when a phone ends up dying drowned in tea etc.
 
Did iTunes make a backup of your device?

On Mac ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
On XP \Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup (i think)

You will see folders that are named as random letters/numbers. If so, yes you have a backup.

Charlie
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top