A delivery of fresh hell for me this morning, courtesy of Apple. I plugged my iPad into iTunes only to be confronted with the news that apparently I’d never synced it before and my last backup was from months ago. Meanwhile, the iPad’s Settings app claims to have been merrily backing up to iCloud since then, with a last backup date of the night before last. Meanwhile, my iPhone sync is fine, so it can’t be anything global that’s changed in iTunes.
Even worse, I know I synced it after that backup date. On the 29th October, a different broken sync wiped 60 or so apps off my iPad. This cost me the save game state in a number of games I was enjoying, which is infuriating.
I’ve now told iTunes to restore that ancient backup, because at the moment I can’t sync new photos. A brief survey of the things I’ve done on the iPad over the last two months suggests I haven’t used anything other than cloud-enabled apps. Indeed, to my surprise, I noticed my entire homescreen only has apps that are cloud powered; Reeder, Flipboard, Writing Kit, Twitterrific, Mail, iThoughts HD, and so forth. So I’m not expecting to lose anything in reverting to this old backup — indeed, I might get back some of the save games I lost.
I look forward to seeing what iCloud is going to make of my iPad, post-restore.
It just works, right?
