Arghhh lost my contacts!!!!

[Spawn12]

Hi all,

Just recently i re-formatted my hard drive on my laptop and put vista back on it. Now i went to connect my Diamond to the laptop...it downloaded some updates etc and installed and also installed the windows mobile device center.

Anyways the phone synched but it didnt give me a chance to specify where and what i wanted synched etc. So anyways it seems like all my contacts that were on the phone have gone missing:mad:...which annoys me to no end as i had no back up. Usually i have my contacts backed up on my outlook email program.

Now it must have synched the contacts somewhere but for the life of me i cannot find where:confused:. So does anyone have any ideas as to where my contacts have gone??. They arent on the sim card as i usually keep them on the phone memory. Ive checked through the phone memory...checking through all the files and cant see where they have gone...they have obviously been taken off the phone when the stupid thing decided to synch itself before i had a chance to stop the synch. I dont know how it synched because it only installed the microsoft stuff after the first synch.

Anyways really hoping someone can help as i cannot afford to lose all these contacts that i have had on the phone...

[steveianson]

I would say that it synced all your contacts from your laptop to the Diamond i.e. nothing. It is usual to sync this way when first connecting. :(

[Wilsas]

Hi all,

Just recently i re-formatted my hard drive on my laptop and put vista back on it. Now i went to connect my Diamond to the laptop...it downloaded some updates etc and installed and also installed the windows mobile device center.

Anyways the phone synched but it didnt give me a chance to specify where and what i wanted synched etc. So anyways it seems like all my contacts that were on the phone have gone missing:mad:...which annoys me to no end as i had no back up. Usually i have my contacts backed up on my outlook email program.

Now it must have synched the contacts somewhere but for the life of me i cannot find where:confused:. So does anyone have any ideas as to where my contacts have gone??. They arent on the sim card as i usually keep them on the phone memory. Ive checked through the phone memory...checking through all the files and cant see where they have gone...they have obviously been taken off the phone when the stupid thing decided to synch itself before i had a chance to stop the synch. I dont know how it synched because it only installed the microsoft stuff after the first synch.

Anyways really hoping someone can help as i cannot afford to lose all these contacts that i have had on the phone...

Did you never synct your contacts with any Gmail or MSN account, or did you never create a backup of your system with SPB backup, if you have then there must be a way to import them again in Outlook and sync them to your phone, an other way maid be easy recovery, with this program you maid be able to find your .pst back at your harddsik important is that you install as less as possible during the time you didn't found it back cause everytime you install something at your pc the possebillity to overwrite the .pst files gets bigger.

Sucses

Willem

[Spawn12]

Thanks for all your help...ive managed to get all my contacts back. Good thing i had them on my nokia 8600 Luna so i just copied them from there to my laptop then onto my Diamond.

[Wilsas]

I would say "it a good lesson to have always a backup of your contacts"

Willem

[Spawn12]

I would say "it a good lesson to have always a backup of your contacts"

Willem


LOL yeh will have to make a backup of my contacts later tonight.

[mugglesquop]

i do a PIM Backup most days ;)

dont want to loose a days work!

[William Richardson]

I use this;
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b081f3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en

It works really well and makes sure you never loose contacts!!

Will

[EazyDude]

Hi all,

Just recently i re-formatted my hard drive on my laptop and put vista back on it. Now i went to connect my Diamond to the laptop...it downloaded some updates etc and installed and also installed the windows mobile device center.

Anyways the phone synched but it didnt give me a chance to specify where and what i wanted synched etc. So anyways it seems like all my contacts that were on the phone have gone missing:mad:...which annoys me to no end as i had no back up. Usually i have my contacts backed up on my outlook email program.

Now it must have synched the contacts somewhere but for the life of me i cannot find where:confused:. So does anyone have any ideas as to where my contacts have gone??. They arent on the sim card as i usually keep them on the phone memory. Ive checked through the phone memory...checking through all the files and cant see where they have gone...they have obviously been taken off the phone when the stupid thing decided to synch itself before i had a chance to stop the synch. I dont know how it synched because it only installed the microsoft stuff after the first synch.

Anyways really hoping someone can help as i cannot afford to lose all these contacts that i have had on the phone...

I did something very similar and learnt my lesson the hard way. Good news was I recovered quite a few contacts from old phone and even better news is that I've cut down my contact list to people I actually contact, rather just accumulate!