The iPhone is a wonderful tool, but it has its foibles. The first one I already knew about is the lack of copy and paste functionality. There are enough people talking about this negative that I'm hoping Apple corrects this mistake fairly soon. But I also discovered that while most everything on the iPhone is automatically (or manually if you prefer) backed up through iTunes, the content in Notes is not (or so it seemed). This really sucks. I may have to find a substitute for Notes so I can both back up the content and have an option of composing notes on the Macbook first.So I found a temporary solution - use Google Docs. Google stores the documents for you, which are accessible from any internet connected computer.... and the iPhone. The only thing is, I can't edit the docs on the iPhone, only read them.
After doing a little research, it turns out that the content in Notes is in fact backed up through iTunes, but isn't readily accessible in iTunes. But the content is stored in the back-up database. If you're in a pinch, you could install the free tool iPhone Backup Extractor, which allows you to extract data from inside the back-up database stored in iTunes. It doesn't allow for easy editing of the data from Notes, but you can get the raw data if you need to.
4 comments:
Heh. Sounds like you need to jailbreak your ifone Karl...
Yeah... well... I'd like to avoid that if at all possible.
Why would you want to do that? The amount of amazing apps available on a jailbroken phone is massive, and growing all the time. The limitations apple places on the device only become truly apparent once you have used a jailbroken device.
I know. What I don't have the time or patience for is any frustration involving the ramifications of jailbreaking the phone. I'm not enough of a power user to justify the effort involved. Once I find easy, fool-proof instructions that include 'what happens after the next iPhone update', I might give it a try. Until then, colour me a hapless n00b.
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