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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! -- biblioholic medievalist |
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In message 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 love how s/he/it blame Yosemite for s/he/it's ****up. Oh, that's only one of the many things Yosemite has mucked up! -- biblioholic medievalist |
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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 |
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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 |
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Austin wrote: 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 Sympathy, perhaps (although less rush would probably have helped), but you certainly can't blame the software when you do something silly or don't bother to properly read the question messages it asks - that's purely "user error". |
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Your Name wrote:
In article , Paul F Austin wrote: 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 Sympathy, perhaps (although less rush would probably have helped), but you certainly can't blame the software when you do something silly or don't bother to properly read the question messages it asks - that's purely "user error". That was not among the Yosemite and Pages problems I spent the morning on the phone with Apple about, however 8-/ -- biblioholic medievalist |
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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". -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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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. And what happened to your backups of the iTunes data from your older machine? What happened to the older computer itself, with it's data? -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. |
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Paul F Austin wrote:
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 As a computer engineer I would have thought such disasters were entirely preventable by keeping backups and even the old computer around... -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. |
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Jolly Roger wrote:
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". Apparently I did it without realizing it. The tech who did the computer transfer didn't have the iPad itself. -- biblioholic medievalist |
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