I’ve just committed my 2nd major f— up at my job. The first happened about seven years ago. We don’t talk about that.
So I was getting someone’s computer, iPad and iPhone all hooked up together. The first step, remove all evidence of duplicates, which means plugging in the tech to the PC, going to iTunes, and making sure that iCloud is doing all the synching, and iTunes isn’t doing any.
Would you believe that right there is where things went wrong?
I told iTunes not to sync Outlook stuff anymore. The PC updated the iPad. After that I checked the iPad calendar. Things hadn’t moved on up yet, so I checked Outlook.
All. Gone.
Contacts, Calendar, all went boom.
Honestly, I do not know what happened. I don’t think this happened to me when I synced everything, but then I don’t use my calendar as much as this particular person does. And if it had gone boom, my attitude is more “oh well, I’ll rebuild it” rather than “oh sh–, I’m f—ed”. But the person I was trying to help, well, I think they pretty much live off of their Outlook Calendar.
Oh, oh dear.
I’m working on something that hopefully will fix the issue, but if not, and you don’t see me posting for several days…
It would be safe to assume the worst.
>.<
Update: I managed to restore the lost items – a five hour process that had the reward of me not getting fired. YAY!
