[thaer_alomran]

I honestly didn't want to start a new topic but I didn't know where to post this either..Bear with me here.

Ok so I have my back-up set to only "messages" and "contacts"..so does it back up the messages in the E: drive or does it only back up the phone memory which is the C: drive? cause I have all my messages saved in the E: drive.. and as for contacts I think that explains itself..I mean I'm sure it does a back-up on all the contacts..Am I right?

So, my main issue is which Messaging Drive is being backed up?

I have searched for a thread similar to mine..but with no avail..and if there is a thread that I could've possibly skipped, then I apologize. 

 Thaer.

[navio1973]

There is a bug on the phone. If you made the backup procedure with the n97 or PC suite the message memory e: changed in c: after the backup. I am sure thate Pc suite made the backup of e: I restored the messages and there were.

[thaer_alomran]

oh so it is better for me to back it up through both the PC suite and the F: drive memory stick? and the bug your talking about, does it stop the phone from making the needed back up? for example..If I Format the phone will the back up be of no use?

[sillbit · Accepted solution]

I don't know if you can backup messages on C:, but it sure don't backup any messages on E:, which I learned the hard way when my phone crashed, and all my messages disappeared. I thought I was safe, since I did have a backup, but even though the backup reports backing up messages, the restore operation did restore any messages, and it looks like no messages were actually in the backup file.

(Yes, all my messages was on E: )

Message Edited by sillbit on 30-Aug-2009 09:45 AM

[thaer_alomran]

Thank you..That's about it.

[navio1973]

@ sillbit: In the last days often my n97 crashed and the only way to restart it was the hard reset. Only once I lose the message on e:, luckly I made the backup with pc suite the same day losing only 1-2 messages, but the other times I always found them on e:.

[sillbit]

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navio1973 wrote:
@ sillbit: In the last days often my n97 crashed and the only way to restart it was the hard reset. Only once I lose the message on e:, luckly I made the backup with pc suite the same day losing only 1-2 messages, but the other times I always found them on e:.

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Interesting. But you do know that a hard reset don't affect E:? So if you have your messages there, a hard reset shouldn't touch them, so they should still be there anyway.

But I have tried several times, and the backup with OVI suite really don't seem to work. Could you check one thing? When you do a backup, make sure you check the box for backing up the messages. Then try a restore, and see what boxes you have to pick between when doing a restore. Messages aren't among them when I try.

It might also be a problem because I use Ovi Suite, which is what was delivered with my N97, so I don't use PC Suite.