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Old 09-11-2008, 06:01 PM   #1
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I lost my Pearl yesterday while riding the motorcycle on the highway... So, I went and bought a Bold. I haven't done backups in a while, however, I have one from a year ago and another one from about 8 months ago.

The 2 backups have different entries in the address book. I want to get the entries from both backups and combine them onto my Bold, but I can't do that - it seems that the "restore" function actually replaces everything, instead of appending to what's already there.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Likewise for the SMS messages...
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Old 09-11-2008, 06:31 PM   #2
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I think it is all or none. No combine.

Current back ups are a good thing!
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Old 09-11-2008, 06:43 PM   #3
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Would it be possible to restore with the first backup and sync your address book with Outlook. Then restore with the second backup and then sync again with Outlook. Shouldn't the second sync merge the addresses together? Just a thought.
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Keep in mind, if you have BES and if your addressbook is synced OTA, restoring from backups may be a challenge (if at all possible).
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It can be done if wireless sync is turned off for the Address book.

I think InnerGeeks idea would work. Pay close attention to the sync direction settings etc., but it should work.
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I synced my Address book from the BB (using my first backup file) to Windows Address book. Then I restored second backup file to my BB, and tried to sync its address book with Windows. However, now it wants to not only add new entries, it wants to delete entries.

I hate this, this really sucks but the good thing is that it's a method, and I can work with it, as long as I have entries electronically on my PC I can export them (SysExporter is a great tool by the way, it allows you to grab contents of any window -> in this instance, will allow me to grab contents of the Windows address book and export it into an Excel file)...

Now if only I could figure out the same thing with SMS messages...
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