On 21/10/2012, at 11:55 PM, LuKreme wrote: > 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?
Almost like that (if I understand you correctly). > > 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 will try that but I'm not sure it will matter. There are already a number of Apple created MS/B/<UDID>extra_characters for backups of same device on different days/times. Sometimes Backup seems to overwrite the backup and others it creates a backup with extra characters after the UDID. > 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. I will try, thank you for the suggestion. >>> 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). I'm not up with iCloud yet, just moved at the last moment. > 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 think I did that but will look try and do exactly as you said. >> 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. I think something got screwed in this particular Omnigraffle document that is causing it not to be able to be restored successfully, i.e. the mkdir is failing just for a folder of this document. A considerable amount of the restore seems to go fine until this point (not that I can really tell from the iPad). >> 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? That's a good idea, but I haven't used Omnigraffle on the iPad much so I may have to go back quite a way, and then the manifest.mbdb may not match as mentioned. >> 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). Not really, at least not with iOS5, I will see though, another good idea. The Apple Store Genius (not really a Genius because I booked an iPad appointment and they don't get really Geniuses - apparently you have to make a Mac appointment to get a real Genius) suggested his guru out back thought it might be a hardware problem because the final error iTunes gives is -1 (which some Apple Support doc suggests may be hardware). Personally, I think -1 is just the error iTunes flags when it doesn’t know anything more about the error. > For reference, here is the format of the Manifest.mdbd file: > > <http://code.google.com/p/iphonebackupbrowser/wiki/MbdbMbdxFormat> I've used iPhone Backup Browser (icky mono app that requires mono and X installed) and the much better (free trial) iBackupBot. These allow minimal editing of files in backup but not really the manifest itself. Will keep trying, thanks for the suggestions. 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
