back from the brink

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.

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biblioholic medievalist

In article
-september.
org, 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.

nospam wrote:

In article
-september.
org, 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.

Indeed. It doesn't happen by accident, and it's their fault they did not
transfer or backup the old iTunes data (it sounds like).
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

nospam wrote:
In article
-september.
, 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.
--
biblioholic medievalist

On 2015-04-09, Erilar wrote:
nospam wrote:
In article
-september.
, 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.

The point is someone (you or your "more capable" helper) caused your
data to be erased from the iPad by answering "yes" to the question "This
will delete all data from your iPad. Are you sure?" It's not something
that just happens on its own.

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JR

Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2015-04-09, Erilar wrote:
nospam wrote:
In article
-september.
, 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.

The point is someone (you or your "more capable" helper) caused your
data to be erased from the iPad by answering "yes" to the question "This
will delete all data from your iPad. Are you sure?" It's not something
that just happens on its own.

I think the question was something about authenticating the new computer.

--
biblioholic medievalist

On 2015-04-09, Erilar wrote:
Jolly Roger wrote:

The point is someone (you or your "more capable" helper) caused your
data to be erased from the iPad by answering "yes" to the question "This
will delete all data from your iPad. Are you sure?" It's not something
that just happens on its own.

I think the question was something about authenticating the new computer.

It said:

The iPhone/iPad "Whatever" is synced with another iTunes library. Do
you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library?

An iPhone can be synced with only one iTunes library at a time. Erasing
and syncing replaces the contents of this iPhone with the contents of
this iTunes library."

You or your helper clicked "Erase".

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On 2015-04-09, Lewis wrote:

I love how s/he/it blame Yosemite for s/he/it's ****up.

A bad workman always blames his tools.

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Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2015-04-09, Lewis wrote:

I love how s/he/it blame Yosemite for s/he/it's ****up.

A bad workman always blames his tools.

It really makes me mourn the loss of SnowLeopard in many ways!

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biblioholic medievalist

On 4/9/2015 1:34 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2015-04-09, Lewis wrote:

I love how s/he/it blame Yosemite for s/he/it's ****up.

A bad workman always blames his tools.

It's remarkable how defensive the iCrowd gets about catastrophes. I've
lost things and it's awful. Since I'm a computer engineer, I have the
knowledge to indulge my obsession with backups. For (computer) laymen,
the loss of data varies from a PITA to life-changing crisis.

Erilar, you have my sympathy.
Paul