Guess they dont call it beta for nothing.
No, they don't. Good thing you were using it on a dedicated device for developer beta-testing only. Weren't you?
Guess they dont call it beta for nothing.
Just to set the record straight...
I recently installed OS 3.0 beta 3 onto my iphone. I then proceeded to setup my mail account as usual. Of course the phone does not hold ten years worth of email (which is only about 2 gigs anyway), but it does sync up the 200 most recent emails. I believe the iPhone client uses IMAP with Yahoo, and something got screwed up.
Its most definitely the phone. Trust me I am not that dozy to have deleted 10 years worth because I f*cked up some setting on my phone/ my mail client.
This problem has happened to a couple of other individuals... - Its the phone.
Having spoken to Yahoo customer services, they can't do jack, dont have any logs to help work out the issue, or any backups.
Sonicjay - Thanks for the info, will try it out
I am not asking for sympathy, just a friendly warning... if you are like me,.. and like to mess with new beta software, just be careful with 3.0 beta3. This is probably the biggest possible mess the phone could have caused me.
At least I have a POP3 backup and I intend to try and reverse the damage.
As for 10 years of mail, most of its sentimental. I do go back on things sometimes, like when did I buy that piece of hardware and what it cost etc.. Its my life database in a way...
loiphin.
I know, yeah? They're so small, what possible benefit could I get from erasing them?
I can think of one or two times I've needed to go back and look something up from 4 or 5 years ago, but I can't think of a single time that having that 4 extra GB of space would have made a difference.
Just checked, mine go back to November, 2001.
Regarding 10 years of email...do you also keep your last 10 years worth of normal mail lying around? Do you have boxes full of it?
I can't figure out why people think this is strange.
I personally don't think it's strange ... I just don't know how you kept all those emails in hotmail's 2 meg limit
(back when that was the case, pre-gmail)
Here's a real world example. I bought the last version of Parallels for my Mac and had Windows on my Mac for awhile.
I stopped using it and removed it.
Now, I've been thinking of recently upgrading to the newer one. If I have my old code, I can save $30. Well, look at that...spotlight found the old e-mail that has that information in it.
Is that example not far enough back for you? Well, here's another. I bought a DVD duplicator about 5 or 6 years ago. Every 2 or 3 years they come out with a software update. I can only download it for free with the registration info from when I bought it, otherwise they charge a large amount of money for it. Well, old e-mail to the rescue again!
I could go on, but here's 2 real world examples where my old e-mail has saved me actual cash.
I can't figure out why people think this is strange.
That's the part I don't get. Hard drives are very big now! Why not?