Have you ever deleted all your stuff by mistake?

craftycurate

@wim said:
I'm here to report that even if you delete all your AudioShare files permanently, an iCloud backup will restore them. In what has to be about the 5th amazing coincidence in the last few days, I did exactly this today. I always have iCloud backup enabled and the last backup was from yesterday evening.

Wiped the iPad, stuck it next to my phone to automatically set it up, and restored the iCloud backup. Several hours later, all AudioShare files and everything else except what I did this morning - restored.

I would have preferred a "real" restore that could just restore the deleted files over the nerve-wracking process of wiping everything and relying on Apple to put it all back. But success.

iCloud backup has come through with two busted iPhones in the family, a new device, and now this. I definitely have a hate / love relationship with Apple's idea of a "backup", and I'd be pissed if I was on iOS 12 or something and was forced to update to 13.6 to restore, or if I had old apps no longer on the App Store that I cared about. But I'm not, and I don't, so it's all good.

Now (finally) the point I came here to make: If you delete something like the AudioShare folder. Immediately turn off iCloud backups until you restore. Don't wait to see if there's some other way out. If you have iCloud backup enabled and a new backup is made, it will back up your device without the files you deleted. If that's the only backup you have, you're hosed. Not many of us have more than one iCloud backup to return to, so this is critical. Turn it off first, then figure out what to do next.

Thanks @wim this is very timely. I read this thread yesterday and thought "No, never!" but then tried to open AUM and found it crashed immediately (almost unheard of), despite soft and hard reboots. So I impulsively deleted the app and reinstalled without backing up my AUM sets first, losing them all.

I totally get the thing about being able to selectively restore, as I only need to restore my AUM presets, as it looks like I'll also have to chew my nails for a while as it restores the most recent backup.

ElektrikDiva

@craftycurate said:

@wim said:
I'm here to report that even if you delete all your AudioShare files permanently, an iCloud backup will restore them. In what has to be about the 5th amazing coincidence in the last few days, I did exactly this today. I always have iCloud backup enabled and the last backup was from yesterday evening.

Wiped the iPad, stuck it next to my phone to automatically set it up, and restored the iCloud backup. Several hours later, all AudioShare files and everything else except what I did this morning - restored.

I would have preferred a "real" restore that could just restore the deleted files over the nerve-wracking process of wiping everything and relying on Apple to put it all back. But success.

iCloud backup has come through with two busted iPhones in the family, a new device, and now this. I definitely have a hate / love relationship with Apple's idea of a "backup", and I'd be pissed if I was on iOS 12 or something and was forced to update to 13.6 to restore, or if I had old apps no longer on the App Store that I cared about. But I'm not, and I don't, so it's all good.

Now (finally) the point I came here to make: If you delete something like the AudioShare folder. Immediately turn off iCloud backups until you restore. Don't wait to see if there's some other way out. If you have iCloud backup enabled and a new backup is made, it will back up your device without the files you deleted. If that's the only backup you have, you're hosed. Not many of us have more than one iCloud backup to return to, so this is critical. Turn it off first, then figure out what to do next.

Thanks @wim this is very timely. I read this thread yesterday and thought "No, never!" but then tried to open AUM and found it crashed immediately (almost unheard of), despite soft and hard reboots. So I impulsively deleted the app and reinstalled without backing up my AUM sets first, losing them all.

I totally get the thing about being able to selectively restore, as I only need to restore my AUM presets, as it looks like I'll also have to chew my nails for a while as it restores the most recent backup.

So sorry to hear this Crafty! Here’s rooting for you that you get all of your work back. Best of luck! ED

McD

No. Any recommendations. In the IOS settings I see that the Kymatica (AUM + Audioshare) is up to 45GB.

I'm tempted to get that space back after moving the contents to iCloud.

I currently use the IOS settings that automatically removes apps that have not been used
recently when I need to download a new app and that really helped. Re-downloading most apps only takes a couple minutes.

Ailerom

No, but I sold a really, I mean really really, like totally superb 12 string Rickenbacker when I had struggled with for the last 20 years. Hence my motto, never delete a guitar.

craftycurate

@ElektrikDiva said:
So sorry to hear this Crafty! Here’s rooting for you that you get all of your work back. Best of luck! ED

Thanks 😊 Followed procedure by @wim and took the plunge, reset iPad and restored yesterday’s backup and everything seems OK so far. At least I got all my AUM sets back! 👍

Fingolfinzzz

Thankfully no but one time a laptop I had with everything on it got stole so now I’m pretty on it with backups. I’ve definitely deleted a few things I didn’t mean to before though on audioshare

Gavinski

@wim said:

@LinearLineman said:
At 72 I will sooner than later face the ultimate deletion. I should have bought the karmic backup.

You should check out Altered Carbon on Netflix.

And you should watch the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror while you're at it!

LinearLineman

@wim @Gavinski. I’ll take a look.