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I'm still as little confused.

So if I use iTunes to do a Restore from the summary tab in iTunes then my OS
gets reinstalled and all settings taken back to factory basics but my apps
and their data are untouched? Is that right?

David

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Don Babcock <don@babcock.org> wrote:

> Architecturally your data and the os are kept separately. A restore will
> reload the os while a synch or restore from backup affects your data. Note
> that restore from backup is not the same as the restore suggested on your
> device summary tab in iTunes as a possible remedy for bad behavior. That
> latter restore is an os restore in case something in the os got corrupted. A
> synch won't touch the os code. It only affects your data.
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> -dB
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jul 4, 2010, at 9:42 AM, "W4KRR" <w4krr@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > I've read people advising to do a restore to possibly resolve some issues
> > brought about by upgrading to OS4. How will a restore be different than a
> > sync? I'm afraid of losing data, apps, etc. if I were to do a restore. Is
> > the data/information you sync to different than what you restore from?
> > Someone clear this up!
> >
> > Ken
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