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Old April 9th, 2015, 06:44 PM posted to rec.travel.europe,soc.history.medieval,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.apps
David Ritz
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On Thursday, 09 April 2015 15:56 -0000,
in article ,
Erilar wrote:

nospam wrote:


In article ,
Erilar wrote:


I'm battling back from disaster-- almost all my apps on the iPad
were wiped clean of all data somewhere in the middle of the nasty
battle with a new computer with the worst OS I've ever had to deal
with: Yosemite. I now have to clear away the old posts here to get
up to date before I leave home on my yearly trip combo and have
only Newstap on the iPad with me.


only because itunes asked if you wanted to delete them and you said
yes. you apparently did not migrate the old system to the new
computer, so itunes saw it as a different computer.


It WAS migrated by someone much more capable than I, but I did
something wrong on the backup attempt.


You should be able to restore your iOS device from the automatic
backups, using iTunes. Please note, your iPad must be physically
plugged into the computer, from which you are attempting to perform the
restore.

In iTunes on your computer, using the full size window, select you iOS
device, displayed the the top of the window. It's going to be a small
icon, just to the right of the icons for music, videos, etc. In the
Summary, there's an option to restore your iOS device, where you want
to click Restore Backup.

If your backups exist in your iCloud account, your documents, music
and photos will not be restored, as only basic things like system
files and preferences are being backed up remotely. If you've been
backing up your iOS device to your computer, everything should be
restored, including your documents, music, photos, apps and the like.

See
https://help.apple.com/itunes/mac/12.1/index.html?localePath=en.lproj#/itns3280

If worse comes to worse, you may be able to restore you iPad, using
iTunes on your old Mac, then performing whatever updates need to be
made so that it will cooperate with OS X 10.10.x.

If, on the other hand, you haven't backed up your device, you're going
to have to start from scratch.

While I hadn't noticed earlier, iOS 8.3 update is available. It
includes security updates. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Please note, not one of your self inflicted issues has anything to do
with running OS X 10.10.x. PEBCAK.

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David Ritz
Be kind to animals; kiss a shark.

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