iSync: Putting numbers back on a phone?

[Lt Major Burns]

i can take all the numbers off my Motorola V3 (i have done, they're all in Address Book now). putting them back on doesn't seem quite so obvious. what it seems to do is sync the computer with the phone (which has no numbers on, so erases my address book too.) what is the point of a backup if it can't be used as such...?

how do i transfer all my numbers back across?

 

[fryke]

Well, you shouldn't delete them from the phone in the first place, of course. The normal ways are this:

1.) You have some addresses and numbers in both your phone and your address book. The first time you synch, iSync tries to synch them, so that you have _all_ numbers on both devices. You then delete doubles on *ONE* end only (it's best that way) and synch again.

2.) If you accidentally remove the numbers on one device (and the next synch would logically remove them on the other device, too, since it thinks you want them gone), you have to "reset device" in iSync. Select the device. Go to "Devices" in the menubar and find that entry. If you do that, iSync deletes everything on the phone and gives it iSync's data afterwards.

Generally, iSync is *NOT* a backup tool, it's a *synch* tool. So: Any change you make on either device is, after the next synch, reflected on any device.

 

[Lt Major Burns]

ah ok. the only use i have currently seen for it was back-up though. i'm not exactly the high-level CEO, and hence don't have anything more complex than mobile numbers...

actually, that is exactly what i wanted! cheers fryke (again )...