When I went to backup my iPad, it deleted lots of pdfs I had on there. I was being very careful, and nothing said anything about deleting anything on my iPad! It was supposed to BACKUP! Any way I can get the files back??? 😢
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Nick Haley wrote:
When I went to backup my iPad...
Do you mean when you were synchronizing your iPad using iTunes?
While your iPad is attached to your Mac's iTunes, look on the "Books" tab on the left of the iPad's display. There you will see the sync instructions you are providing. They look like this:
Presumably the PDF files are on your Mac, and you can bring them back to your iPad by seeing the instructions you would like.
It was set to sync all books. During sync it went from like 27 books to 65 books (adding the ones from the iPad), then they disappeared again and aren't on the mac or the iPad. Shouldn't sync ADD what's missing instead of DELETE what's different?
And if I don't have the iPad plunged in, where do I see the books in iTunes. The ones showing up in iTunes when my iPad is connected is different than the ones in iBooks.
I assume you did not restore the iPad. You only synched it.
Have you looked in the iBooks app on your Mac and failed to find these PDFs?
Ya, nothing in iBooks. It's different even than what appears in iTunes when my iPad is connected.
Ok, have found a workaround. Another computer with the pdf files on it in iBooks wasn't working right apparently and I thought the books were lost on there. After restarting the other computer iBooks is working again and I can get the files from there. Moving everything off of Apple's stuff and somewhere safer!
Glad you found them.
Deleted pdfs on iPad
