Ashley Aitken squawked out on Sunday 21-Oct-2012@02:36:05 > 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.
So you have in the MobileSync/Backup directory a folder that YOU named, and the backup folder inside of that? Might be silly, but have you tried putting the backup you want to restore at MobileSync/Backups/<UDID> with nothing else at all there? no extra characters. I seem to recall having to do this with my original iPhone 3GS at one point, where I could not restore the folder unless it was in exactly the right spot with exactly the right name. >> 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. Ah. Well, iCloud backups are good (and quite small if you are smart and exclude music/photos from them). When you reset it to new I meant, setup the iPad as a new iPad, go through all the steps to where it is usable, then go in to the settings and reset it completely. > 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. huh. > 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. If you have figured out which folder is the omnigraffle one, go back to your earliest backup with that folder and put it into the backup you're trying to restore? > 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. Do you have an entirely different backup you can try to restore? That would tell you if it was hardware (an iphone backup, a backup from a different iPad). For reference, here is the format of the Manifest.mdbd file: <http://code.google.com/p/iphonebackupbrowser/wiki/MbdbMbdxFormat> -- She hated everything that predestined people, that fooled them, that made them slightly less than human. --Witches Abroad _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
