{"id":10727,"date":"2015-02-08T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2015-02-08T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T21:16:21","slug":"recover-data-lost-because-of-icloud-sync-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/recover-data-lost-because-of-icloud-sync-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Recover Data Lost Because of iCloud Sync Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/recover-data-lost-because-of-icloud-sync-problems\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/recover-data-lost-because-of-icloud-sync-problems\/\">\n<p>So, there are a couple of morals to this story. First, don&rsquo;t trust iCloud. I don&rsquo;t blame Realmac; it&rsquo;s probably not their fault. I find it interesting that the data loss occurred overnight; I may have looked at my Clear list on my iPad yesterday evening, but I don&rsquo;t recall doing so. If I had, I would have spotted that a list was missing. So my guess is that the data loss is due to iCloud itself.<\/p>\n<p>Second, don&rsquo;t use an app that doesn&rsquo;t offer backups. I looked in my local folders and couldn&rsquo;t find any readable files that I would have been able to recover from Time Machine backups. There&rsquo;s a locally-stored .sqlite file, but it doesn&rsquo;t contain the same data.<\/p>\n<p>I won&rsquo;t be trusting any important data to iCloud any more. I am slightly concerned about my contacts; I&rsquo;ve had issues with them in the past. I know there are local and Time Machine backups that I could restore if I ever need to. But for the rest, iCloud is simply too precarious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macroplant.com\/iexplorer\/\">iExplorer<\/a> to get the Core Data SQLite database out of his local iTunes backup.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk McElhearn: So, there are a couple of morals to this story. First, don&rsquo;t trust iCloud. I don&rsquo;t blame Realmac; it&rsquo;s probably not their fault. I find it interesting that the data loss occurred overnight; I may have looked at my Clear list on my iPad yesterday evening, but I don&rsquo;t recall doing so. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,131,462,109,16,1141,31,26,30,32],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-bug","tag-clear","tag-coredata","tag-icloud","tag-iexplorer","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}