Thanks for your reply and suggestions. On 21/10/2012, at 3:01 PM, LuKreme wrote:
> Hmm. How did you restore the backups from TimeMachine and are you doing > anything 'odd' in restoring them to the iPad? I just copied in the Finder (drag and drop) into a folder, added something to the folder name (so it didn't clash with a later backup) and then put it into the MobileSync/Backup directory where they go. Nothing special, all seems normal in iTunes etc. > Have you tried resetting the iPad to 'new' and then restoring? do you have > iCloud backups? Yes reset to new, no luck, and I don't use iCloud backups. > Are your backups encrypted? If not, you can probably find/figure out which > directory in omni's and remove it. Backups not encrypted and I have spent days trying to "patch the backup" so that it would ignore OmniGraffle. There are a number of plists in the backup but also a binary database (manifest.mbdb). I even did a small bit of binary patching of that database but no luck. >> I've tried lots of things including, removing these files from the backup, >> editing the backup plists and binary databases, full restore etc. > > Wait, you removed the files from the backup and you still get the error? A different error - it detects the files are missing etc and won't restore. I believe the file list is in that binary database and I don't have a tool to edit it properly. I tried taking Omnigraffle out of the plists but again it detects this (since still in mbdb) and won't proceed with restore. >> I'm rather annoyed at this - we are going to lose a lot of state from the >> iPad if we have to start from scratch (app files, state etc.) This is not >> good enough IMHO. > > I admin 9 ipads and I do a restore probably once a week or so and I've never > had this problem. The only problem I have, consistently, is apps that were > deleted months previously eating reinstalled. I have restored ok before but this iPad seems to have gotten into a state that can't be restored. I noted one of the Omnigraffle document plist files was empty when it shouldn't have been, so I put something from another plist into it but still no success. The problem is that currently iTunes doesn't allow you to restore specific applications (or the flip-side to exclude particular applications when you restore). It is an all or nothing restore process and currently it seems a little too fragile for my situation. Perhaps in a future version of iTunes we will be able to restore just a particular application (or not) from a backup - that would solve my problem. Alternatively, if I could just tell iTunes to ignore this error and keep restoring, I think I would be good. My hope it that Apple may have tools (or some way) to do this. It was beyond the capability of the Apple Store Genius and his boss (they suggested hardware failure but I doub that). I am going to ring AppleCare. Thanks again. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Social (Facebook, Twitter, Skype etc.): MrHatken Professional (LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype etc.): AshleyAitken Dropbox stores your files so you can access from any computer. Get it (and extra space for both of us) for free! Go to http://db.tt/geb9RWb _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
