so i had to restore during 1.1.1

[mr.666]

and lost a bunch of important pictures. and some notes i took. this blows!

any ideas on sucessful retival of photos?

 

[aristobrat]

AFAIK, when you restore, it blows everything off of the device.

 

[hexonxonx]

Just remember to backup photos next time you do an update. They are gone for good now.

 

[aristobrat]

I had the exact situation happen to me when I upgraded to 1.1.1.

Since I had mailed most of my photos to friends, I was able to go thru my Sent folder (on my computer) and find copies of most of the pictures. They had been resized smaller, but it was better than nothing.

 

[mr.666]

anyone try software to recover them? seems there's stuff for windowz that i'll try on the GF's laptop.

 

[aristobrat]

anyone try software to recover them? seems there's stuff for windowz that i'll try on the GF's laptop.

Let us know what you find. I thought the iPhone was basically "formatted" (and all data lost) when you do a restore. Would be cool to know if that's not the case!

 

[DotComCTO]

I actually did do a sync before applying 1.1.1 - just in case I had a problem. I didn't realize that the photos on the iPhone didn't sync/get backed up during the process. Sure enough the firmware installation failed initially (no idea why since I never had 3rd party apps on the device). On the next connection, iTunes did a restore. It restored nearly everything *except* photos, my YouTube bookmarks, and my wifi settings.

I lost a handful of photos including a number of rainbow photos (I see them in my area once every few years, so that really stinks!).



--DotComCTO