okay... so i have accidently deleted my contacts. Yes very stupid of me. i know there probably is nothing i can do but at this point im desprete. anybody know of a way to undelete contacts?
unless you had them backed up via some backup program (PIM backup, SPB Backup), or synced to your computer...I can't think of a way...
zakhir_n said:
unless you had them backed up via some backup program (PIM backup, SPB Backup), or synced to your computer...I can't think of a way...
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yea.. thats what i figured.. thanks though
If they were at some point synced with your PC & your talking about losing them in both places you can use XP system retore for the PC & then re-sync.
Otherwise there's not much you can do.
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If they were at some point synced with your PC & your talking about losing them in both places you can use XP system retore for the PC & then re-sync.
Otherwise there's not much you can do.
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Good info that can be useful down the line.
GSLEON3 said:
If they were at some point synced with your PC & your talking about losing them in both places you can use XP system retore for the PC & then re-sync.
Otherwise there's not much you can do.
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System restore, isnt that just system files ?
I am pretty sure that no data at all is altered, it even says that no data is changed when you run it. Could be wrong though.
If your contacts were synced to an exchange server chances are that the IT department running it conducts regular backups and you could restore your contacts that way.
Basically, is there any copy of your contacts anywhere? Home computer? Laptop? Work server? A backup? Or perhaps someone stealing (touch wood) your data
System Restore works? It happened to me. . . LOL but that works for sure?
Try this in the future https://zyb.com/ . that might help
If you use Activesync with Outlook.
Look in your deleted items directory in Outlook on your PC/Laptop, you will find them there. Just select all and move them back to your contacts folder and when you next sync it will put them back on the device.
Same goes for anything like Outlook mail, Notes or Calendar items...
THANK YOU!!!! How do you select them all? I have 2007 version BTW so how?
~~Tito~~ said:
THANK YOU!!!! How do you select them all? I have 2007 version BTW so how?
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Usual windows, left- click the first then SHIFT-click the last or CONTROL-left-click to select seperate ones. Right click and move to Personal folders/Contacts.
BE CAREFUL here.. when you choose where to move them, select the small '+' symbol at the side of Personal Folders to open, DON'T click on the actual Personal folders as it will just push them straight into the root folder and cause you problems.
EDIT: when I said select 'all' I meant all the contacts...Don't just select everything including mail to put in the contacts directory. Contacts to contacts, mail to mail etc...
I just clicked edit>select all and just moved them all to contacts!! THANK YOU AGAIN YOU SAVED MY ASS!!!
System restore doesnt restore the content of pst files or mailboxes- that would be insane! Imagine doing a system restore and losing your appointments/emails/contacts that you have received since...
Next time sign up for a free mozy account and save your pim data etc to their secure online storage site.
ODD, it says you have to pay?
Oops that the my referral link for paid for accounts!
Have editted it to the free mozy service now.
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Oops that the my referral link for paid for accounts!
Have editted it to the free mozy service now.
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Told ya!! Voodoo dolls!!! (private joke...)
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I did a hard reset last night because my palm messaging wasn't working properly. This morning I connect my phone to my PC to get all of the contacts and it DELETES THEM FROM MY COMPUTER! Now I'm left, 700+ phone numbers LOST, is there any way I can get them back? I tried using SPB backup, but for whatever reason it didn't backup my contacts? Is there some backup feature in Outlook? I'm using outlook 2007 THanks in advance!
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ucsbshawn said:
I did a hard reset last night because my palm messaging wasn't working properly. This morning I connect my phone to my PC to get all of the contacts and it DELETES THEM FROM MY COMPUTER! Now I'm left, 700+ phone numbers LOST, is there any way I can get them back? I tried using SPB backup, but for whatever reason it didn't backup my contacts? Is there some backup feature in Outlook? I'm using outlook 2007 THanks in advance!
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check the deleted items folder in outlook,if you Lucky they may still there. next time pay attention when setting up a partnership.
faria said:
check the deleted items folder in outlook,if you Lucky they may still there. next time pay attention when setting up a partnership.
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FARIA to the RESCUE! THANK YOU worked like a CHARM!!! Yeah, I'm actually backing up my contacts by exporting a file JUST IN CASE.
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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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.
skenobi said:
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...
licht77 said:
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.
Does anyone know where android stores the contact icon pictures? Since I use mybackup pro to backup my contacts, I can no longer sync my G1 with Gmail so I wanted to update the contact icons manually in Gmail contacts. I know that even though you delete the picture that you originally used for the icon, the picture obviously still stays so there must be a folder that it stores them to, I just can't find it and a search turned up nothing.
Also, is it possible to pull these files to my PC from ADB and have Windows XP recognize the file type?
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I never found where they were, but I found an old backup I made of my SD card so there were a lot of the pics I used to make contact icons so I just used those.
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Does anyone know where android stores the contact icon pictures? Since I use mybackup pro to backup my contacts, I can no longer sync my G1 with Gmail so I wanted to update the contact icons manually in Gmail contacts. I know that even though you delete the picture that you originally used for the icon, the picture obviously still stays so there must be a folder that it stores them to, I just can't find it and a search turned up nothing.
Also, is it possible to pull these files to my PC from ADB and have Windows XP recognize the file type?
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Actually I think it is stored with google because I got a replacement phone and all my contact pictures was still there even tho it was a different phone.
Hmm, that would be a problem but I still think the images have to be stored locally somewhere on the phone. When I use mybackup pro to restore my contacts, it includes my contact icons which means that the program is getting them from "somewhere" when I do the initial backup. That somewhere cannot be Google because I haven't synced with Google since the beginning of the year.
The only reason I said that was because of having a brand new phone without my sd card in it and nothing done to it. As soon as I logged into the brand new phone before leaving the t mobile store my contact pictures were there.
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Hmmmm... try backing up your contacts with Backup for Root Users, then go to your sdcard, open the BackupRoot folder and look inside the folder for contacts and see if you can see your images in there... If you can, try searching for the same folder/filename within root.
Why not uninstall mybackup pro and sync with gmail? Or, is there another reason you're not choosing to sync?
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Hmmmm... try backing up your contacts with Backup for Root Users, then go to your sdcard, open the BackupRoot folder and look inside the folder for contacts and see if you can see your images in there... If you can, try searching for the same folder/filename within root.
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The problem is that the images are on the non rooted phone. I was hoping that there was a folder I could gain access to from Linda or Astro file manager and pull them off that way. But I'm not sure if this is even possible.
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Why not uninstall mybackup pro and sync with gmail? Or, is there another reason you're not choosing to sync?
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I was one of the original users of mybackup pro (before everyone fully understood the syncing with gmail problem). There is an inherent glitch in mybackup pro that makes contacts syncing impossible once you perform the first restore of your backups. Now the problem is know and well documented, then it wasn't. I spent the better part of four hours today restoring my contacts from my rooted spare G1's SIM card in order to partial restore my gmail contacts because those contacts were untouched by the glitch in mybackup pro. Now everything is just the way I want it in gmail contacts with the exception of the contact icons so I was figuring that I could push them from the phone to gmail contacts with a PC as the go between. Then everything will be perfect and I will make sure NEVER to backup my contacts with mybackup pro!
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