ive searched and cant find the answer to my question. anyway how can i retrieve deleted contacts? for some reason my contacts were deleted so i tried to sync with outlook and copy contacts from outlook but now those are gone too. please tell me there is a way to retrieve them.
Did you do a backup recently? If you have a backup you'll be okay. If not, well maybe someone else can help ya.
As far as I know once they are gone there's no way to bring they back. Next time get PPCPimBackup. Keep it on your storage card in a folder marked backup. It backs up contacts, calendars, and other info onto your memory card. so if you lose everything you can restore it immediately.
Actually if he did a sprite back up with the contacts on his phone he'll be okay. Otherwise you can go into xp & do a system restore. You'll be okay. Just slow down & be patient. I'm sure you either have a ppc back up with the cotacts or XP system restore enabled, right?
i did not do a backup recently. i usually just sync with outlook to have another copy of my contacts. i can try to xp system restore. did not think of that. thanks.
No problem. Yeah, it's a pain & I had to sys restore from losing them a few yrs ago w/ Wireless Sync. Just make sure your device doesn't overide your desktop after you sys.m restore or you'll come full circle.
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No problem. Yeah, it's a pain & I had to sys restore from losing them a few yrs ago w/ Wireless Sync. Just make sure your device doesn't overide your desktop after you sys.m restore or you'll come full circle.
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i did a system restore and my contacts do not come back.
check yr outlook's "deleted items", there could be a copy over there.
thanks everyone. i found a copy of the outlook archive on a flash drive i used to transfer info between work, school, and home. got most of my contacts back. now i guess my question is switch between phones for big parties to avoid losing or breaking my tilt so i copy my contacts to the sim. how do i get it to copy in the same format as in outlook? ex. in outlook the names are filed as first and last but when its copied to the sim its filed as last and first.
I usually find items deleted during synchronization in the Deleted Items folder.
Gosh! You've replied to a thread which has died seven years ago, dealing with active sync/outlook.
Wonder if the hint you've given will be any remedy here at all
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after upgrading custom roms by the guides only some of my contacts are synced. any fixes to force all to come over?
noone has had this bug happen to them?
I followed the sticky threads which were EXTREMELY informative... I thing that took the longest was waiting to relog into rapidshare to get files as it cuts you off without having an account.
All my contacts are still showing in outlook and it says updating 0/283 when it starts up but only like 20 carry over.
Before you run any upgrade, you MUST backup all your data! It's a rule for all kind of Windows OS product!
Because in the Instruction, there's 1 step: Delete you parnership and Outlook will ask you sonething like "All your persional information will be delete such as contact, calendar...etc". You should backup before run this step!
Upto now, I dont have any way to recorver data (both mobi device or PC) and I myself think there's no way to recover!
DiCham said:
Before you run any upgrade, you MUST backup all your data! It's a rule for all kind of Windows OS product!
Because in the Instruction, there's 1 step: Delete you parnership and Outlook will ask you sonething like "All your persional information will be delete such as contact, calendar...etc". You should backup before run this step!
Upto now, I dont have any way to recorver data (both mobi device or PC) and I myself think there's no way to recover!
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yea I know that. I build custom PC's and know the no-no's to computers not to mention I followed the how to's to the letter.
My question was now that I have everything all customized and I have resynced my info. all my contacts show in outlook HOWEVER only like 20 are actually syncing over to the new custom phone. The other 263 contacts or so aren't syncing like they used to.
Just FYI data doctor recovery can recover any deleted sim messages or contacts off of your sim card. Also I have used my data recovery programs to recover files off of my SD card and the Wizard internal flash memory.
So there is a way to do what you thought I was talkin about.... heheh I just don't wanna have to re-enter 263 contacts.
noone? I have resynced this thing a whole buncha times and still not all the contacts are going back to the phone.
I have deleted the .pim and it recreated it. Still nothing syncs over to the phone. I have read posts on other boards of people with the same problem. I can add new contacts and it will sync them over strangley enough. I exported the list out of outlook and imported it with no duplicates and with duplicates and both ways none of the contacts carried over.
Anyone ever had this problem? The .pst file is fine and my calendar syncs perfectly.
Hi folks!
A friend of mine (really *g* - i keep making backups) managed "somehow" (of course he did nothing, just wanted to delete some double contacts on the sim card via sim_mgr) to purge all his contacts on his Kaiser -> and clever thing: after sync they are gone now on outlook too.
Now the question: Any ideas how to recover them?
There is NO exchange server in the back so activating the registryhack for the hidden "Recover Deleted Items" item in the "Extras" menu does not help.
There is no "damaged" *.pst file, so most of the "recovery tools for outlook" wont work as they adress only this kind of problem.
Standard file recovery tools (getdata back, rstudio etc.) wont work too, because the related pst file is not deleted - just parts of it. So the file remains on the same physical space on the harddisc and forensic tools wont help too.
Any other idea to get to the lost / deleted contacts either on the PC or PDA side?
Regards, Licht
(PS: I guess from now on he will use Spritebackup as told *g*)
licht77 said:
Hi folks!
A friend of mine (really *g* - i keep making backups) managed "somehow" (of course he did nothing, just wanted to delete some double contacts on the sim card via sim_mgr) to purge all his contacts on his Kaiser -> and clever thing: after sync they are gone now on outlook too.
(PS: I guess from now on he will use Spritebackup as told *g*)
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Dunno about you, but when my Contacts on Outlook get deleted, they end up in my default PST file's "Deleted Items" folder, ready to be copied/moved back to the Outlook Contacts folder when I need it.
Unless, of course, I purged the Deleted Items folder as well, in which case, I'd be screwed.
Backup, backup... and backup.
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Dunno about you, but when my Contacts on Outlook get deleted, they end up in my default PST file's "Deleted Items" folder, ready to be copied/moved back to the Outlook Contacts folder when I need it.
Unless, of course, I purged the Deleted Items folder as well, in which case, I'd be screwed.
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Uh sorry I forgot... it was so obvious for me that i left this one out: of course was the "deleted items" folder the first thing i investigated... but somehow (dont ask me - its not my system) that folder didnt contain any contacts...
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Uh sorry I forgot... it was so obvious for me that i left this one out: of course was the "deleted items" folder the first thing i investigated... but somehow (dont ask me - its not my system) that folder didnt contain any contacts...
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Maybe the chap had some kind of "purge Deleted Items on Exit" setting set up?
In any case, methinks it's likely your friend may have to re-build his Contacts.
My own backup routine:
1. My Kaiser? every night
2. My PST file? I make a PST backup of my Contacts folder alone every time I make major changes/additions to my contact list (which is probably at least once a week). And I'll keep a zipped up copy on my thumbdrive or email it to my gmail account.
Quite paranoid about it, actually. About a thousand contacts, mostly business-related.
skenobi said:
Maybe the chap had some kind of "purge Deleted Items on Exit" setting set up?
In any case, methinks it's likely your friend may have to re-build his Contacts.
My own backup routine:
1. My Kaiser? every night
2. My PST file? I make a PST backup of my Contacts folder alone every time I make major changes/additions to my contact list (which is probably at least once a week). And I'll keep a zipped up copy on my thumbdrive or email it to my gmail account.
Quite paranoid about it, actually. About a thousand contacts, mostly business-related.
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Paranoia is GOOOOD... I backup mine to my work laptop, 2 separate drives on my home desktop and also my home laptop. I've only ever lost important data once (in 1992) and once is enough.
So I had all contacts on the sim copied to the phone.
Which meant I had everybody in my contact list twice.
I thought I'd solve this so yesterday I updated my outlook contact list and made it nice and clean.
I assumed the phone would just update with the new data from outlook and I deleted all numbers from my phone (oops), it appears the phone has the 'leading' contacts list so now it deleted all my outlook contacts as well.
Is there any way to restore this data or do I have to find all the numbers again and put them in the phone again so that I don't lose it all again when syncing?
Grtz!
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So I had all contacts on the sim copied to the phone.
Which meant I had everybody in my contact list twice.
I thought I'd solve this so yesterday I updated my outlook contact list and made it nice and clean.
I assumed the phone would just update with the new data from outlook and I deleted all numbers from my phone (oops), it appears the phone has the 'leading' contacts list so now it deleted all my outlook contacts as well.
Is there any way to restore this data or do I have to find all the numbers again and put them in the phone again so that I don't lose it all again when syncing?
Grtz!
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OOPS indeed! If you delete everything on your SIM and delete everything on your phone and then sync with your PC (which hopefully has ALL your contacts still), then the PC will put everything back on your phone. I always delete all contacts on my SIM. I don't see the point in having any contacts there. After all, all contacts/appointments etc. are always backed up on the PC. It may be worth backing up whatever is left on your phone with PIM backup or similar first though.
Good luck.
My setup is:
work laptop, xp / outlook 2007
home vista / outlook 2007
work phone: nokia E71
enjoying: my tilt
The thing is, I recently started flashing, oh yes
I used pimbackup, myphone, and even googlesync, to have all of my data (contacts and calendar) available in all of the above mentioned devices, and failed miserably.
Deletions, duplicates, you name it, I had it...
I started reading, I mean really reading the forum, and I'm still doing it, but so far no luck.
Does anyone has an idea what would be the smartest way to ensure all of my data safe and synced in all of the above mentioned devices?
Or, please overlook my noobness, and just point me in the direction of the right thread?
TIA
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anybody outhere?
what I would do is this. DELETE all your contacts from your phone and your Outlook contacts. Then delete all your SMS. Hide your SIM contacts. Then use Pim Backup. Then after it restores everything you will have one copy. Then resync with your comp and store all the new info to your comp. Ideally PIM Backup is best used only for storing SMS, let active sync do the rest. Just in case let pim backup store all your contacts, but when restoring only select to restore SMS so you dont have duplicate contacts.
thank you, I'll give it a try.
I'm screwed, I can't believe this happened. I reformatted my PC. Installed fresh and clean version of Outlook. Installed MS ActiveSync. The very FIRST thing I did was set the ActiveSync options to have the PHONE replace OUTLOOK, thinking this will put all my contacts, calendar appointments, etc back in outlook. For some unexplained reason, that setting was ignored, and when I synced it, it deleted everything from my phone. A years+ worth of information I can't get back. So my question is:
Is there any way to recover all my lost phone numbers, appointments, etc? Or am I really SOL? I'm praying perhaps there's some file recoverable file on the phone or... I don't know. Help!
go to the recently deleted folder or something like that on outlook - this happened to me and luckily they were all in a deleted folder on outlook on my pc so check there
It was a fresh install of windows, and thus a fresh install of outlook. It was because outlook was completely 100% empty, that it erased (overwrote) everything I had on my phone when it synced. Hence there is nothing in the deleted folder...
ugh, I've done this by accident myself...
This doesnt help you now..
but it will help you from doing it again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582421
i wish i could help now
Did u make a backup somewhere else, like PPCPIMBackup or Microsoft MyPhone?
I don't think you can get the data back...
But I don't know why it delete your data. I reinstall my PC many time, and when I sync with my X1, the outlook copy data from phone, it doesn't delete anything.
Poor you....
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Did u make a backup somewhere else, like PPCPIMBackup or Microsoft MyPhone?
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Ha, if I did, I wouldn't be asking this question!
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I don't think you can get the data back...
But I don't know why it delete your data. I reinstall my PC many time, and when I sync with my X1, the outlook copy data from phone, it doesn't delete anything.
Poor you....
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Yeah, so did I, so I was shocked that the setting "Replace Outlook data with phone content" didn't take. Backup in spades and don't make the same mistake I did. I'm still crying from what I lost