Hi all, I've been having an interesting natter with Gordon off-list on the topic of what I perceive to be a fundamental flaw in Apple's IOS backup strategy. Apologies for the length of this mail, but I'd like list-members input.
Ok I have a device and somehow, somewhere, something has become corrupted. I can't see my audiobooks anywhere under the "more" tab in music. (I mentioned this a few days back). Now if I do a clean instal on the device, everything appears perfectly. However I lose my sms messages, old photos, that kind of thing. So this brings me to the nub of the thing. I think it would be lovely to have the facility to have a clean install on a device, and then drop in only that content you wish to preserve; in my case old SMS messages, photos and the like. I think this has several advantages. first, it gets over the hump of situations like the one in which I now find myself. Secondly, I don't know about you, but over time I've accumulated lots of clutter in terms of apps, settings, other garbage on my phone that, I believe slows it down and causes faster degradation of the device's battery. So, does anyone know of a way to inject stuff from one backup into another? I surely can't be the first person on the planet to want to do this. One last thing. If you're going to provide solutions based on jailbreaking, do so off-list and not on it in order to respect the list owners. I'm not averse to these solutions, but as this list is public, let's keep thing clean, as it were. I'd prefer a solution that didn't involve jailbreaking of course. Dónal Dónal Fitzpatrick [email protected] <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
