How to recover flashcards from iPod Touch backup

[elPresidento]

What a disaster. My iPod Touch was stolen and with it my flashcards collection that I spent countless hours perfecting. I did some manual backups along the way but it's been many months since the last one. I reckoned iTunes does a full backup anytime I sync anyway so why bother... Now I bought a new iPhone and I want to load my old collection on it but I don't know how to access it in the iTunes backup. Hell, I don't even know how to access the iTunes backup. Apple can make things complicated as much as it can make them simple. Is it even possible? I already activated the device and Pleco that's running on it so it has all the add-ons of my old iPod - but no flashcards. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[mikelove]

Wipe your iPod - reset it to factory defaults, via iTunes or the relevant command in the iOS "Settings" app" - then sync it with iTunes again and you should be offered the option to restore from your backup the first time you sync.

 

[elPresidento]

Thank you for your answer, Mike. However, I already did that and it only loaded a non-activated version of Pleco app (without any flashcards). Maybe because the old iPod was bought in US, but I bought this iPhone in (mainland) China and it runs Chinese software (no YouTube app, Chinese Google maps...) I don't know... Anyway, it didn't work and now I already did a lot of changes on this new device so I don't wanna try again. If you know any alternative way how to dig out those flashcards I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[mikelove]

It's possible to recover data from a backup, but it's somewhat challenging since iOS mixes up all of the file names. This page discusses the procedure - the Pleco flashcard database file would be stored in Pleco's document area under .pleco/Databases/Pleco Flashcards.pqb.

 

[watereyes]

When I had to upload to a new device everything was saved in iTunes I just needed to make sure my external was connected (because that is where everything was saved). This made it super easy, I am wondering why it isn't the same case for you. If there is some kind of issue I really need to know so that I can add a section about a fix to my next round of email marketing material. Let me know if this is something new we need to work through.

 

[Paul Duke]

Posting here because it's sort of relevant. Looks like I need to restore my iPhone because of issues with other programs.

I've backed up the flashcard database and copied it to the desktop. After I restore, if I import flashcards, will it put them in the categories and such I originally had them in? (IE, as opposed to just in one big flashcard category.)

Sorry for dumb question...

thanks,

PD

 

[mikelove]

I've backed up the flashcard database and copied it to the desktop. After I restore, if I import flashcards, will it put them in the categories and such I originally had them in? (IE, as opposed to just in one big flashcard category.)

If you backed up the database file (rather than just dumping the list of flashcards to a text file) then yes, your categories and in fact even your test settings should all restore seamlessly.