iPhone Forums - View Single Post - I lost all my contacts on iPhone and Mac PLEASE HELP!

rishio · 10-05-2007, 01:21 AM

The same thing happened to me. I lost 15 years of contacts. I did think I backed up but my backup was really 0kb so I did something wrong in the backup!

I no longer trust syncing with the iphone.. It really sucked to lose all my contacts like that...

Originally Posted by abohsali

Thanks for your help guys. Actually I had them in the address book in the first place on my macbook pro and then synced to the iPhone when I got it. The phone is not hacked nor unlocked. I spoke to Apple and they told me if the sync was interrupted abnormally then I can loose some data. As I am a new mac user I did not know that I can backup my address book so I did not and lost everything. They told me I cannot retrieve my contacts. But luckily I found a backed up folder on an old hard drive with with about 75% of my contacts and were able to upload them to Outook on Parallels and synced them to the iPhone successfully.

One thing though is that I can only see the last backup of the last sync in the iPhone preferences in iTunes. How can you see the rest of the old back up? any ideas?

Thank you - Bohs

10-05-2007, 01:21 AM	#6 (permalink)
rishio Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	The same thing happened to me. I lost 15 years of contacts. I did think I backed up but my backup was really 0kb so I did something wrong in the backup! I no longer trust syncing with the iphone.. It really sucked to lose all my contacts like that... Originally Posted by abohsali Thanks for your help guys. Actually I had them in the address book in the first place on my macbook pro and then synced to the iPhone when I got it. The phone is not hacked nor unlocked. I spoke to Apple and they told me if the sync was interrupted abnormally then I can loose some data. As I am a new mac user I did not know that I can backup my address book so I did not and lost everything. They told me I cannot retrieve my contacts. But luckily I found a backed up folder on an old hard drive with with about 75% of my contacts and were able to upload them to Outook on Parallels and synced them to the iPhone successfully. One thing though is that I can only see the last backup of the last sync in the iPhone preferences in iTunes. How can you see the rest of the old back up? any ideas? Thank you - Bohs