chadfrommaurice
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Q: Please help. My contacts got deleted during sync and I can't recover them from an earlier backup. Is there anything I can do to recover them? I am operating a pc using windows 7.

I hope someone can help me out here...All of my contacts on my iPhone got deleted during sync. I can't recover them from my last back up, nor can I find them anywhere on my pc. I know they have to be somewhere in my phone, but don't know how to get them out. I am not operating a mac, I have a pc and I am running windows 7. Can anyone help? I would greatly appreciate anything to get me in the right direction.

iPhone 3GS, Windows 7

Posted on May 22, 2011 6:41 AM

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  • by diesel vdub,Helpful

    diesel vdub diesel vdub May 22, 2011 10:26 AM in response to chadfrommaurice
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    May 22, 2011 10:26 AM in response to chadfrommaurice

    Did your contacts ever exist on your computer? or were they solely on the device?

     

    If they were on the device, and assuming you have backups, you can restore from a previous backup and that should put your contacts back.

  • by chadfrommaurice,

    chadfrommaurice chadfrommaurice May 22, 2011 8:03 PM in response to diesel vdub
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    May 22, 2011 8:03 PM in response to diesel vdub

    Yes, my contacts were at one time on my computer, but apparently a couple of months ago when I changed my hard drive, they weren't saved to my new one. I have done many back ups and syncs before, but for whatever reason, I was only able to access the last one, which did me no good at all. Thought I would have had more than that being my phone has been synced at least 4x since replacing hard drive. Thank you for the input anyway, if I were just a little less cpu literate it would have been a great help to me. Still don't have them, and seriously considering jailbreaking. This syncing operation apple has is completely ridiculous!!! One simple oversight or mistake and you are completely screwed!!! Thanks again for the effort, I do appreciate it. Any other ideas???

  • by diesel vdub,

    diesel vdub diesel vdub May 23, 2011 7:38 AM in response to chadfrommaurice
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    May 23, 2011 7:38 AM in response to chadfrommaurice

    It sounds like when replacing the hard drive for whatever reason your contacts were not loaded on your new drive.  Syncing the device does not put contacts on your drive.

     

    If you still have the old drive, you could reinstall it and export the contacts from whatever contact management app you use, then remove the old drive and reinstall the new drive, importing the contacts back into your contact management app.

     

    If you have your contacts backed up elsewhere, that would be the simplest solution.  Simply restore them or import them back into your contact management app.

     

    Personally, I would not trust the iTunes backup as a solution for keeping my contacts.  I choose to use MobileMe and Google contacts to provide backups and sync points for my contacts.

  • by ivyyao,

    ivyyao ivyyao Oct 20, 2016 8:51 PM in response to chadfrommaurice
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    Oct 20, 2016 8:51 PM in response to chadfrommaurice

    hi don't worry when you couldn't find your lost contacts from your backup. that is only because you didn't backup your iphone regularly and the lost contacts is thus not in your backup. but you are right. your lost contacts are indeed to be somewhere on your iPhone. so all you need is just a tool to help you recover lost contacts directly from your iPhone rather than backup. here is a tutorial. it has provided 5 solutions to recover deleted contacts. and one of them is recover contatcs from device directly with the help of a tool. by the way, this guide is contacts on iPhone 7. but this tool is compatible to any iOS device, that is, any types of your iphone. you can jusy click the table of content : how to recover deleted contacts on iPhone 7 without backup. the guide is : https://www.primosync.com/support/recover-deleted-contacts-from-iphone-7-plus.ht m