Stupid iPhone Sync Crapped Out

[Mac-A-Matic]

Okay, my journey with this iPhone Conspiracy continues...

In an effort to see if there really is a problem with the ATT Network and a conspiracy to force original iPhone users to new models, I decided to restore the phone and start it up as a "new phone."

The problem is that I originally started this phone on my laptop and had it completely synced to that phone. About two months ago, I moved the iPhone to my desktop and had it syncing with the desktop's iTunes. Or so I thought.

Now that I've trashed the entire system, it seems that it never synced the addresses on the iPhone to the desktop's Address Book. Is this correct? Or is iTunes saving those files somewhere else that I am not aware of? How can I find it?

Luckily, the iPhone files are still stored on my laptop.

Unhappily, my old iBook laptop flew off with my mom on her One Month Tour of Asia.

Crap.

If worse comes to worse, how can I instruct my not-too-computer-savvy Mom to pull the address book file and email it to me?

Thanks!

[C(-)ris]

You can export the address book by going to File: Export: Addressbook Archive. The only place iTunes stores those files is in the device backups. You could restore the iphone from one of those, then sync the addressbook, then wipe it again.

[DRR]

Device backup is found at userfolder/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

But it's too big to email. If the only thing you need is the address book, the export method should work just fine.

[C(-)ris]

DRR wrote:
Device backup is found at userfolder/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

But it's too big to email.

If he had the device syncing to his desktop for music there should be a backup file on his local drive.

[SteveO]

FWIW, I have a 1g iPhone 8gb. It seems to work okay but the ATT EDGE network is ungodly slow on it vs. what it was when I got it 2 years ago. I just signed up for T-Mobile and am gonna jailbreak it probably this weekend.

[RAMd®d]

Conspiracy theorists have opined that slowing the Edge network is at&t's way of forcing people to 3G which means a new phone and more money to at&t.

They may be right.