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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
This morning while being impressed with the fact my iPhone App Store app indicated I had an update via a 1 with a circle around it (much like when you have a new SMS message or email), I noticed something bad. Real bad. Looking in the iTunes Applications section, I saw that the storage path for my application was not the NAS (Network Attached Storage) server path I had specified for my music. Instead, it was on my local drive in the default iTunes folder in a new folder called Mobile Applications. Take a look at my Info window. The danger behind this is for those thinking they are securing their data from failure on an external RAID drive actually could lose all their applications with local hard drive failure. Yikes!
Knowing this, it is advisable to back up your local iTunes folder either through Time Machine (Leopard users) or a third-party application such as our favorite SuperDuper! While your apps are also stored on your iPhone, it is unknown if they can be restored from the device to iTunes after a re-installition of iTunes. Apple did not respond for requests to explain this in time for this post.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:49
After buying my iPhone 3G this week-end, I, like gazillions of others, had issues getting everything setup and working between my iMac, MacBook and iPhone. At one point, I finally went back to ‘basics’ and did a ‘Restore’ on the iPhone - in the process of trying to get iCal, AddressBook and Mail all synced between the three machines.
Just for the benefit of the uninitiated, every time you download music or an iPhone App to the iPhone, then plug the iPhone into the Mac (to re-charge the battery say), everything that you have downloaded to the iPhone from the ‘Cloud’ gets moved onto the Mac as part of your ‘iPhone Backup’. So, when I did the ‘Restore’ it went something like this (totally unassisted by the way), 1) Mac downloads the latest version of iPhone software. 2) Erases the iPhone, 3) reformats the iPhone memory 4) Opens, un-compresses and installs the iPhone 2.0 software, 5) restores EVERYTHING from the iPhone Backup on the Mac… This was one of those rare occassions when everything went flawlessly. The only thing missing from my iPhone after the Restore was the iPhone didn’t know where it was located. Had to do a ‘Search’ (which took 3-4 minutes) while the GPS relocated itself on the may. Other that that it went 100% FINE!!
July 16th, 2008 at 9:38
I do believe that all Apps you buy can be downloaded again, free of charge.
July 16th, 2008 at 15:44
“I do believe that all Apps you buy can be downloaded again, free of charge.”
That maybe true, but what if the developer pulls his app off iTunes or closes down or changes the app from free to $$ ? mmm. Apps will probably be treated more like software.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:58
The iPhone Apps are just like the iPod apps.
They are wrapped in a FairPlay DRM.
Thus, in order to load them into your iPod,
you have to have iTunes verify that you own
the application by connecting to the
iTunes Music Store.