Ok, so I cry as I type this. I lost my macbook and iphone 4 to a very crappy incident that involved a ton of water. I was able to recover certain files of my Macbooks Hd and luckily I recovered 1 iphone backup file. So I copied this to a flash drive. I put it on my new macbook and put it in Users/Library/mobilesync/backups but it is not showing up in itunes as a restore option for my new iphone, nor is it showing up in something like mobilesyncbrowser. Can someone please help me? I have lost all of my contact information for all of my work, its my only chance to get back sensitive information to my life. Thanks in advance.
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Disaster! please help!
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I'm researching this for you right now - i'll have an answer in less that ten minutes.
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Okay, did you place the files in "Users/Library/mobilesync/backups" like you said or "~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup" - The latter is the correct location. If you successfully recovered a full iPhone backup file it will be in a cryptically named folder, ie:"f99b669b93d67f69b51f74658f0b1fb71bceaaa4" and it will contain about 3,000 cryptically named files within. Does this sound right for what you recovered?
EDIT:
Okay, did you place the files in "Users/Library/mobilesync/backups" like you said or "~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup" - The latter is the correct location. If you successfully recovered a full iPhone backup file it will be in a cryptically named folder, ie:"f99b669b93d67f69b51f74658f0b1fb71bceaaa4" and it will contain about 3,000 cryptically named files within. Does this sound right for what you recovered?