iOS Hardware Change without loosing data or get duplicates
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 4:08 pm
Hello Birdy,
what is the intended process of migrating calender and contacts from old Apple hardware to new (e.g. switching a broken iPhone to a new one) without loosing data or getting duplicates?
The first trivial thing is making a backup on both sides (Thunderbird and iPhone) that not the interesting point. The obvious procedure would be:
1) making a full sync between iPhone and Thunderbird (all informations which could be mapped are available on both sides now)
2) making a backup of Thunderbird Profile as pointed out in BirdySync FAQ and performing a backup using iTunes for iPhone
3) taking new iPhone and restore previous backup
At this point everything should be fine and process could be finished but the next sync process between new iPhone hardware and Thunderbird is the crucial point.
BirdieSync will recognize that hardware has changed and you have got two options at next synchronisation:
1) RESET contact synchronization in BirdieSync Activation tab, which leads to loosing additional data stored on iPhone (which are not synced to Thunderbird before in detail all unmapped contact fields) when selecting "Replace" at next sync
2) same as 1) but taking the option "Combine" or (which leads in my opinion to the same result) doing no RESET. Doing no RESET BirdySync will recognize all data on the iPhone as new (I don't know why, but probably because the hardware was changed) and start syncing them to Thunderbird, although this is not necessary (nothing has really changed). In my case that leads to messing up the Thunderbird side (e.g. loosing categories of events, because they unmapped). The "Combine" option after a RESET seems to be a process of "copy all from Thunderbird to iPhone and everything from iPhone to THunderbird and after that remove the duplicates (which looks fine at first). But which of the duplicates can safely be removed? Here it would be necessary to remove the iPhone once on Thunderbird side and the Thunderbird once on iPhone side in order to get the original state back. But when I tried that option I get messed up data on both sides...
So my question here is: What is the intended process of changing Apple hardware (could be iPhone or iPad as well) in order to not get messed up data or even loose of data?
An other question is: Is there a kind of preview option where the user can see why an event or contact should be synced again? This would be a kind of "diff" where the changed details could be seen and if needed the sync process could be interrupted before something bad would happen.
Kind regards
KingTutt
what is the intended process of migrating calender and contacts from old Apple hardware to new (e.g. switching a broken iPhone to a new one) without loosing data or getting duplicates?
The first trivial thing is making a backup on both sides (Thunderbird and iPhone) that not the interesting point. The obvious procedure would be:
1) making a full sync between iPhone and Thunderbird (all informations which could be mapped are available on both sides now)
2) making a backup of Thunderbird Profile as pointed out in BirdySync FAQ and performing a backup using iTunes for iPhone
3) taking new iPhone and restore previous backup
At this point everything should be fine and process could be finished but the next sync process between new iPhone hardware and Thunderbird is the crucial point.
BirdieSync will recognize that hardware has changed and you have got two options at next synchronisation:
1) RESET contact synchronization in BirdieSync Activation tab, which leads to loosing additional data stored on iPhone (which are not synced to Thunderbird before in detail all unmapped contact fields) when selecting "Replace" at next sync
2) same as 1) but taking the option "Combine" or (which leads in my opinion to the same result) doing no RESET. Doing no RESET BirdySync will recognize all data on the iPhone as new (I don't know why, but probably because the hardware was changed) and start syncing them to Thunderbird, although this is not necessary (nothing has really changed). In my case that leads to messing up the Thunderbird side (e.g. loosing categories of events, because they unmapped). The "Combine" option after a RESET seems to be a process of "copy all from Thunderbird to iPhone and everything from iPhone to THunderbird and after that remove the duplicates (which looks fine at first). But which of the duplicates can safely be removed? Here it would be necessary to remove the iPhone once on Thunderbird side and the Thunderbird once on iPhone side in order to get the original state back. But when I tried that option I get messed up data on both sides...
So my question here is: What is the intended process of changing Apple hardware (could be iPhone or iPad as well) in order to not get messed up data or even loose of data?
An other question is: Is there a kind of preview option where the user can see why an event or contact should be synced again? This would be a kind of "diff" where the changed details could be seen and if needed the sync process could be interrupted before something bad would happen.
Kind regards
KingTutt