iOS5 update fail

[afuna]

Updated to iOS5, and I've basically lost all data from apps that aren't official Apple apps.

That just takes all the fun out of it :-(

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[afuna]

No it wasn't -- I can't seem to find any info on reconstructing a backup (though I'm aware where the backup lives). Do you think there might be somehow a way to re-import all the data and preferences, or is it more of having the files on hand and being able to type stuff in manually?

I did just take stock of my data, though, and besides one expense-tracking app, and that one I think I found and I think I can re-upload a db file for, I didn't lose a lot of personal data.

i.e., all my photos on my ipad were from outside sources, videos ditto. I did have some notes but these were mostly travel notes and it sucks to have lost them but they weren't work-related or valuable, etc.

But on the other hand, I use Dropbox for viewing notes, and iBooks has separate syncing, and my music too appears to be preserved in iTunes, and

I've spent the entire afternoon wrestling with this, including trying to downgrade to an earlier version of my backups so I could restore onto the device the older backups I snagged from Time Machine, back up once more using iTunes, and then try the upgrade process again. (I dunno maybe it might have worked!) but I can't get work past the restrictions apple put up wrt signing their .ipsw files. Ugh.

Right now I'm just -- resigned. Pissed off, but mostly resigned as well :-(

[thorfinn]

The "backup", such as it is, is a directory of directories of files, some of which are SQLite databases, essentially.

So it would be possible to go digging around through older time machine backups and newer ones and cobble together a franken-backup...

I'm not sure I'd be game to go to the effort of trying to poke into the completely undocumented under-the-hood details, it's probably easier to just manually try and restore data in other ways. :-/