I have a 3 day old Sprint 64 GB iphone4s. I Woke up and all 40gbs of my music was deleted.
My question: If i use "Restore from backup" (on my computer) will all my music be restored exactly as it was before? FYI: i have too much music to just hit sync.
backround and info:
I plugged it into my desktop an through itunes verified it was all deleted. I have all my music (130 GBs) saved on an external drive so it's safe. But because of the sized differences i can't just sync. I originally went song by song and album by album picking and choosing individual tracks. Thus i'd like to not have to do that again. Ringtones were deleted too. The only video i've taken with my camera was still there. Apps remained, contacts remained, mail and messages remained. The only thing deleted was 40 fricken gbs of tediously dragged and dropped music. So i really don't want to spend hours doing that again. Of all the things i wast saved it's the state of my music. if it matters none of my music was bought from itunes none of it is in icloud either. So my question is:
If i use "Restore from backup" will all my music be restored just the way it was? Again i cannot just hit sync. My library is too large.
The only think in icloud are contacts. I back to my computer and the last backup was 1:35 AM. Honestly no clue how since i've never purposely backed up anything. This is my first iphone but i've had ipods, several. I always manually manage. Itunes manages nothing (don't want my tags ruined). When i plugged in my phone "Manually manage music and videos" was UNCHECKED. No idea if i did that or if it did it on it's own. But it wasn't unchecked over the weekend. Regardless nothing else but backup to computer is checked and i recheckd "manually manage music..." Still don't know how it happened but i just don't really want to have to copy everything back again. it's a pain.
i've read several threads on this and other pages but i'm a bit confused as to the music issues.
Thanks for your help. i'm sure this is a noob question but i'm a noob. Thanks for any feedback.
My question: If i use "Restore from backup" (on my computer) will all my music be restored exactly as it was before? FYI: i have too much music to just hit sync.
backround and info:
I plugged it into my desktop an through itunes verified it was all deleted. I have all my music (130 GBs) saved on an external drive so it's safe. But because of the sized differences i can't just sync. I originally went song by song and album by album picking and choosing individual tracks. Thus i'd like to not have to do that again. Ringtones were deleted too. The only video i've taken with my camera was still there. Apps remained, contacts remained, mail and messages remained. The only thing deleted was 40 fricken gbs of tediously dragged and dropped music. So i really don't want to spend hours doing that again. Of all the things i wast saved it's the state of my music. if it matters none of my music was bought from itunes none of it is in icloud either. So my question is:
If i use "Restore from backup" will all my music be restored just the way it was? Again i cannot just hit sync. My library is too large.
The only think in icloud are contacts. I back to my computer and the last backup was 1:35 AM. Honestly no clue how since i've never purposely backed up anything. This is my first iphone but i've had ipods, several. I always manually manage. Itunes manages nothing (don't want my tags ruined). When i plugged in my phone "Manually manage music and videos" was UNCHECKED. No idea if i did that or if it did it on it's own. But it wasn't unchecked over the weekend. Regardless nothing else but backup to computer is checked and i recheckd "manually manage music..." Still don't know how it happened but i just don't really want to have to copy everything back again. it's a pain.
i've read several threads on this and other pages but i'm a bit confused as to the music issues.
Thanks for your help. i'm sure this is a noob question but i'm a noob. Thanks for any feedback.