FURIOUS!! - Automatic iPad Sync Deleted All Apps Without Warning
My iPad, 3rd Generation (6.0), is set to wirelessly sync with iTunes (10.7) in Mountain Lion (10.8.2). Today I opened iTunes and was greeted with the a message advising me that the iPad had new apps that were not yet synced back to iTunes. I was in a rush so I declined to sync the new apps. But as soon as I pressed the button, iTunes proceeded to delete all of my apps from the iPad, including all the data associated with those apps (including PDF files with annotations). I attempted to restore from an iTunes backup, but I got nothing back.
My objections:
(1) This is seriously unpredictable and harmful behavior in iTunes.
(2) My iTunes backup utterly failed or was overwritten after I declined to transfer the apps
(3) This is not a new problem: See http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=889859
My feelings:
Now I have to spend hours recreating what I had on the iPad. I'm a patient man, and very computer savvy. But this has me wanting to throw my iPad through the window.