This might not be the most appropriate place to ask, but I'm throwing this up purely due to the amount of people that come through this forum, and the heightened probability of somebody knowing something because of that.
iTunes has this idiotic tendency to give me an error message and wipe my phone whenever I try to update it. Normally this is more of an irritation than a problem because it actually backs up my phone data before it attempts the update process, so I don't lose anything but time. However today, after it had done this and asked me to choose a back-up date to reinstate my phone with the data from, the back-up it had carried out before attempting to update wasn't present.
I've looked in the resigstry file iTunes backs up the data to and the file is there but, predictably, it's an unrecognised file format, and I've looked into it, there isn't actually any program for Windows that can convert it to a readable format. Yaaay Apple.
This is infuriating to say the least. I've lost every new piece of information I've added or received to my phone since April 3rd. It seems so close. Everything I need could be in those wacky unrecognised file-format files. Or, you know, they couldn't. The file I need is actually 400mb less than the file from April 3rd, and I don't delete stuff from my phone. Could iTunes have actually never backed up the phone to begin with, and all this was doomed regardless?
What a ridiculous company.
Does anybody have an ideas on what I can do, or has this happened to anybody? What did you do?
Thanks.
iTunes has this idiotic tendency to give me an error message and wipe my phone whenever I try to update it. Normally this is more of an irritation than a problem because it actually backs up my phone data before it attempts the update process, so I don't lose anything but time. However today, after it had done this and asked me to choose a back-up date to reinstate my phone with the data from, the back-up it had carried out before attempting to update wasn't present.
I've looked in the resigstry file iTunes backs up the data to and the file is there but, predictably, it's an unrecognised file format, and I've looked into it, there isn't actually any program for Windows that can convert it to a readable format. Yaaay Apple.
This is infuriating to say the least. I've lost every new piece of information I've added or received to my phone since April 3rd. It seems so close. Everything I need could be in those wacky unrecognised file-format files. Or, you know, they couldn't. The file I need is actually 400mb less than the file from April 3rd, and I don't delete stuff from my phone. Could iTunes have actually never backed up the phone to begin with, and all this was doomed regardless?
What a ridiculous company.
Does anybody have an ideas on what I can do, or has this happened to anybody? What did you do?
Thanks.
