Christina WarrenI am about to start my fourth attempt at transferring my old iPad to my new iPad. It has failed twice in the data transfer stage and once before we even got there. This is the stuff we used to be able to rely on with Apple. I don’t particularly want to set this thing up from scratch but I also don’t want to waste another hour. Sigh.
Thomas Brand@film_girl this never would have happened with Music Match Jukebox. (But in all seriousness I have given up on direct transfer and only recommend iCloud/iTunes restore.)
@Eggfreckles I just don’t have the stomach to do backup and restores via macOS, I just don’t. Maybe I should, but I was under the impression that I still had to login to everything again that way. This way (which worked 4th time, although the other iPad still thinks it’s doing a transfer), my tabs and cookies and app logins largely remained the same. Which is what I wanted. Would any of that persist on a backup to a Mac?
Owen 🇦🇺@film_girl @Eggfreckles It’s been a while since I had to do it but I think the backup to Mac and restore from there does retain more settings (logins etc) than iCloud backup when you use an encrypted backup on Mac.
I’ve always found the Mac to be the most reliable way to setup a new device from backup. There’s also the option of using the iMazing app for the backup/restore, it’s saved me from bad situations more than once.
@vanitalo @Eggfreckles imazing switched to a subscription model IIRC and I just couldn’t justify it for using something maybe once a year (twice if I happen to replace an iPad and phone the same year), but I remember it being a great app. If I did a lot of backups and restores, I’d probably look into it.
@film_girl @Eggfreckles Yeah I used it prior to the subscription model switch.
I didn’t subscribe to the new version because I feel the same about it as you do, but I guess it’s there as an option in a break glass in case of emergency kind of way. 🤣
Pierre-Luc Gagné@film_girl @Eggfreckles I go in my library folder and see the amazing amount of cruft and old stuff from the 10.5 era that’s still in there and sometimes I wonder:
How does my Library folder on my iOS account dating all the way from OS 2? I paid for the update to get mail on my iPod Touch, is that flag still on there?
@pl @Eggfreckles omg I also paid for the iPod touch update. I think the $5 for wireless N support too! Ahh, Sarbanes-Oxley justification when the only people that violated that were Steve Jobs and Fred Anderson.