Paul Duke
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Okay, so this is really annoying...
Somehow while in the supermarket tonight here in Beijing (ie, lots of items in my arms... and must have touched the iPhone screen randomly), I deleted Pleco from my iPhone. In other words, without looking I touched the icon until it "shimmied" and then somehow -- what bad luck! -- hit the "x" button to delete it.
Okay, I know how to reinstall it, but what about my couple of years of flashcard files... text files I am reading, settings, etc?
Go into iTunes and just click Restore, right? No, no, no, not that simple. When I click "restore" first it checks the software version... I guess I am running 6.1.2 and the current version is 6.1.3... okay so iTunes wants to download the new version (800+Mb, not a fast download if you know anything about the internet in China), and then restore...
Okay so the download starts... in the meantime, it seems, iTunes backs up the iPhone -- backs up the iPhone in its CURRENT state, with Pleco deleted. And as you probably know, in the iTunes preferences panel, only ONE backup is kept.
Okay, so I search around the 'net to try to figure out how to grab a previous iPhone backup from Time Machine (which I run regularly). I go in and restore the iPhone backup file from the previous day. Then I restore the iPhone from the backup (which still has the post-deletion time stamp, but I'm assuming that Time Machine has put the older backup in the place of the newer, useless, backup). Result: seems I'm wrong, backup does not restore anything.
So, trying to put it as simply as possible: can I restore Pleco from an earlier Time Machine version of my iPhone backup (because the latest backup is post-Pleco-deletion and thus doesn't include any flashcard files etc), and how do I do that?
Seems this is a real flaw in Apple's backup and restore logic... if they only keep one backup... and if that backup is done automatically when I connect my iPhone to the computer... how do I deal with a situation where I want to restore something that is in the backup but has currently been deleted from the phone???
Thanks,
PD
Somehow while in the supermarket tonight here in Beijing (ie, lots of items in my arms... and must have touched the iPhone screen randomly), I deleted Pleco from my iPhone. In other words, without looking I touched the icon until it "shimmied" and then somehow -- what bad luck! -- hit the "x" button to delete it.
Okay, I know how to reinstall it, but what about my couple of years of flashcard files... text files I am reading, settings, etc?
Go into iTunes and just click Restore, right? No, no, no, not that simple. When I click "restore" first it checks the software version... I guess I am running 6.1.2 and the current version is 6.1.3... okay so iTunes wants to download the new version (800+Mb, not a fast download if you know anything about the internet in China), and then restore...
Okay so the download starts... in the meantime, it seems, iTunes backs up the iPhone -- backs up the iPhone in its CURRENT state, with Pleco deleted. And as you probably know, in the iTunes preferences panel, only ONE backup is kept.
Okay, so I search around the 'net to try to figure out how to grab a previous iPhone backup from Time Machine (which I run regularly). I go in and restore the iPhone backup file from the previous day. Then I restore the iPhone from the backup (which still has the post-deletion time stamp, but I'm assuming that Time Machine has put the older backup in the place of the newer, useless, backup). Result: seems I'm wrong, backup does not restore anything.
So, trying to put it as simply as possible: can I restore Pleco from an earlier Time Machine version of my iPhone backup (because the latest backup is post-Pleco-deletion and thus doesn't include any flashcard files etc), and how do I do that?
Seems this is a real flaw in Apple's backup and restore logic... if they only keep one backup... and if that backup is done automatically when I connect my iPhone to the computer... how do I deal with a situation where I want to restore something that is in the backup but has currently been deleted from the phone???
Thanks,
PD