Do you guys locally back up your phones? I have no doubt that I'd be expecting Microsoft to back up their service to me, but I'm still pretty OCD about it--my contacts and calendar and to do list are duplicated once on the Mac and once on the PC, aside from an actual phone backup on the PC.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
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§ ita § - Oct 11, 2009 8:47:20 am PDT #11339 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Liese S. - Oct 11, 2009 8:54:43 am PDT #11340 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I don't. But I'm not in the applicable user group. My phone was free with purchase of contract and doesn't connect to my computer in any way.
I would still be pretty pissed if I lost all my contact info. So I should probably do something manually, huh?
Tom Scola - Oct 11, 2009 8:58:05 am PDT #11341 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
With a Sidekick, I don't think there's a way to back up your data out of the box. The Sidekick is a dumb terminal that is tethered to their servers.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2009 9:02:33 am PDT #11342 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think there's a way to back up your data out of the box
Panic stations.
The Sidekick is a dumb terminal that is tethered to their servers.
You're basically running VNC or its ilk?
::clutches E61i tightly::
Trudy Booth - Oct 11, 2009 4:39:17 pm PDT #11343 of 25501
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
tommyrot - Oct 12, 2009 5:09:30 am PDT #11344 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data
Reports have been cropping up on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's latest Operating System. Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most data is gone, according to iTWire.
The problem, can easily be reproduced when a user logs into the 'guest' account, either on purpose or by accident, and when they log back out of the account and back into their normal one, they find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped and lost - the account is like a brand new one. The home directory still exists under "/Users/username" but is completely empty.
Users are reporting that the data is unrecoverable and cannot be found anywhere on the hard drive, and the only way to restore it is if the user has been performing backups on a separate hard-drive. Apparently the problem has been present since a few days after launch, as the forum post dates back to 12th September, but as of yet, Apple has been silent.
It seems the only work around at this stage is to disable the Guest account, or at least disable it and then re-enabling it so that it's a native Snow Leopard account. Another suggestion is to create a new account and enforce parental controls, if you really need a temporary account.
le nubian - Oct 12, 2009 7:00:23 am PDT #11345 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
thanks for this. I'm disabling the guest accts on my computer ASAP.
le nubian - Oct 12, 2009 7:02:12 am PDT #11346 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
OMG, the snark level of the comments on that site are at Biohazard Level.
Sean K - Oct 12, 2009 9:54:39 am PDT #11347 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I haven't installed Snow Leopard yet (or even bought it, really), but this is good to know.
However, I don't have a guest account on my Leopard computer. Just me.
le nubian - Oct 12, 2009 9:58:50 am PDT #11348 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I do because I have security software on my mac and they recommend a guest account. I'll disable and re-enable it.