Updating safely
26/08/08 06:35
Users of many other iPhone applications have
reported data loss problems after installing
updates, and sadly, My Eyes Only™ is no exception.
This is not a fault on our side, but rather a
strange bug in iTunes/iPhone OS. From our customer
support issue logs, we have seen just two users who
have lost date during the update. As far as we
know, no one has yet been able to reliably
reproduce this bug, so we don’t know how long it
will take Apple to fix it.
There is a procedure you can follow to prevent data losses until Apple has resolved the issue. Note that this procedure works equally well for all iPhone applications, not just My Eyes Only™.
There is a procedure you can follow to prevent data losses until Apple has resolved the issue. Note that this procedure works equally well for all iPhone applications, not just My Eyes Only™.
- Back up your iPhone by syncing it with iTunes just before you install any update.
- Disconnect your iPhone and install the update on the device.
- If you didn’t lose your data, all is fine. If you did lose your data, you can restore it from the backup. But you have to be very careful. When you connect your iPhone to your computer, iTunes automatically overwrites the existing backup with a new one. Since you just lost your data on the device, this will effectively delete your previous backup from iTunes! To prevent this, you need to do the following:
- Disable automatic syncing for your iPhone in iTunes’ preferences before you connect the iPhone again (iTunes > Preferences > Syncing > Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones and iPods).
- Connect your iPhone and wait until it appears in iTunes’ sidebar. Since syncing is disabled, iTunes won’t back up your data automatically.
- Right-click (or control click) on the iPhone and select “Restore from backup”.