iPhone backup & timemachine

Thursday, May 22. 2008

Frings beta für iphone hat gerade meine SMS gelöscht.

Da dachte ich mir, die hol ich mir aus dem backup.

Dumm nur, dass itunes immer nur eine version hält. Dachte ich, macht nichts, ich hab ja ein backup von meinem Mac via time machine..

Aber nix da, die iphone backups sind vom timemachine backup excluded, schöne Scheisse. Danke Apple!

Deswegen habe die exclude list von time machine geändert

/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist
<!--            <string>Library/Application Support/MobileSync</string> -->

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=431124

nu denn hab ich nun 300 SMS verloren

Samsung SGH-X820 (no) iSync workaround

Friday, May 18. 2007

While looking for a small but not too expensive backup fone for my Nokia E70 I run into the Samsung SGH-X820. I like its look and weight.

However, it was clear for me from the beginning, that Samsung is not the best choice to use with a Mac, since Apple iSync is not supported.

After a while some I found some ideas to which seemed to be promising:

With those tips together I decided that it is likely, that I will find a way to import my contacts into the SGH-X820, even without iSync.

I picked the phone today in a local store (while Zürich Stadtpolizei pulled me over on my way back for holding it in the hand, noeither foning, nor writing SMS; but thats another story).

Back at home I tried to combine the research I did before and it was even easier. Based on "Mac OS X and Bang & Olufsen Serene" I feared, that I have to click 550 times OK for each of my contacts.

It went smoother as I expected:


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