I am preparing for HSK 3. I have a flashcard file for each HSK level that I was feeding as I was learning. Then I had the idea to create a test in which all three files would be selected as well as an other one on interesting terms. The total was about 950 entries. I know this is hefty, as the HSK 3 is only supposed to have 600 words. I chose to revise all the cards, so that if I make sittings of 50 cards, in about 20 sessions, that is in a week if I did 3 sessions a day, I could go over the whole thing. I launched the test. Then I noticed it was windy. So I looked out and then saw on the news that there is a typhoon between Taiwan and the mainland.
Then I got back to my test. And my screen says: no flashcards. I look again, quit, turn off the iPhone 4s, relaunch everything. To no avail.
I went to my mac, and this is when I became mindless and rather stupid, I should say. I connected the iPhone to the mac, went on to do a search on how to restore erased flashcards which told me if I got it straight that I should reimport the exported database which is, er... about 6 months old. Meanwhile the Pleco backup was going from the iPhone to the mac, which means I let it copy its "emptiness" into iTunes. Of course, when, 3 minutes later, I decided to do a restore from iTunes to the iPhone, the empty flashcard file was copied back.
So now it is all gone. I do not know if it is the wind, but I feel kind of numb. At least I see my dictionaries being reimported from iTunes.
More technically, I wonder if is the size of the test or something else that caused the loss. I do not believe I can retrieve the lost stuff except may be from a month old Time Machine (but how to do that). I wish that helps preventing future occurrences. That does not lower in any way my appreciation of Pleco of which I will remain a faithful user and vector.
Then I got back to my test. And my screen says: no flashcards. I look again, quit, turn off the iPhone 4s, relaunch everything. To no avail.
I went to my mac, and this is when I became mindless and rather stupid, I should say. I connected the iPhone to the mac, went on to do a search on how to restore erased flashcards which told me if I got it straight that I should reimport the exported database which is, er... about 6 months old. Meanwhile the Pleco backup was going from the iPhone to the mac, which means I let it copy its "emptiness" into iTunes. Of course, when, 3 minutes later, I decided to do a restore from iTunes to the iPhone, the empty flashcard file was copied back.
So now it is all gone. I do not know if it is the wind, but I feel kind of numb. At least I see my dictionaries being reimported from iTunes.
More technically, I wonder if is the size of the test or something else that caused the loss. I do not believe I can retrieve the lost stuff except may be from a month old Time Machine (but how to do that). I wish that helps preventing future occurrences. That does not lower in any way my appreciation of Pleco of which I will remain a faithful user and vector.