My pleasure, Pete! Glad I could help. Cheers, Carlo
Sent from my iPad On 20/03/2011, at 14:23, Pete Smith <smudd...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > Thanks Carlo. > > I decided to revert and followed your instructions with no problems except > step 3. > > I deleted both apps from iTunes and the iPhone, confirming both deletes. When > I started step 3 to sync the iPhone minus Bento, up popped a message box > saying that the iPhone had downloaded items that were no longer on iTunes and > did I want to bring them across? I can't remember exactly what it said; > sorry; but that was the gist of it. As I knew I hadn't downloaded any thing I > rejected it. > > I cancelled the sync using the slider on the iPhone, waited what seemed like > ages whilst iTunes still indicated it was backing up my iPhone. When it > finally said it was safe to disconnect I then dragged the old app from finder > into the iTunes Library and re-synced the iPhone. > > I then opened Bento on both devices and had to set up from anew again and > sync which took about 37mins but now all is well and my latest book additions > are on my iPhone so I wont double up. > > As an afterthought - I have just realised that I had, in fact, updated some > data on an app (bus timetables) via 3G on Friday so maybe that was what the > message was about? But that doesn't make sense as I hadn't synced since then > anyway. I've just done another sync and the message didn't come up but the > data is still on the iPhone anyway. I also checked and compared the app size > and worked out the content of the Bento app when I synced was 1.45GB! > > Many thanks again Carlo. > > (PS - I'm already missing the look of the new Bento app. Must upgrade to > Bento 4 soon.) > > Pete Smith > > iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo > 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM > 750GB Hdrive OS X 10.6.6 > > On 19/03/2011, at 13:27 PM, cm wrote: > >> Hi Pete, >> >> Well done in preserving the file! If the update to the iPhone app was free, >> you have a painless way to revert to the older version that you just >> recovered from Trash. It is easy enough so I will detail it here to give you >> the option. The file you recovered should have a .ipa extension, that >> presumably stands for "iPhone app". >> >> 1) Delete the app from your iTunes library -- in iTunes select Apps in the >> left hand selector panel, find the icon of the app in question in the right >> hand detail panel, right click or Ctrl-click the icon and select Delete. In >> the successive pop-ups select Remove and then Move to Trash. >> >> 2) Delete the app from your iPhone -- press and hold the App icon until it >> jiggles, then select the X at the top left of the icon and confirm the >> delete. >> >> 3) You can sync your iPhone now to save any version confusion (I am not sure >> if this step is necessary) >> >> 4) Drag the .ipa file of your old version to the Library pane at the top >> left of iTunes. >> >> 5) Sync your iPhone again to install the old version to the phone. >> >> And that's it. You can then at some future time upgrade again to the newer >> version of the App, but until you want to do that, avoid selecting the app >> for upgrade in the app store. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> >> >> On 2011-03-19, at 12:54, Pete Smith wrote: >> >>> Thanks Carlo. >>> >>> I still had the app in the trash and have moved it to another folder on the >>> mac for storage just in case. As I can still use both the iMac version and >>> the iPhone app (just not sync) I will put up with the inconvenience for a >>> little while. Either I'll update to Bento 4 before; or the other app update >>> will come out and hopefully fix it. >>> >>> I dare say I'll stop my little personal protest soon and buy the update. >>> I've been hanging out for it. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Pete Smith >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
