iPhone and iTunes
I am tech-savvy...a programmer by trade and a technology geek by hobby. So, I was a little surprised when I blew up my IPhone when upgrading to the 2.0 patch. I was so happy I was able to get it a little earlier than its release date that I did not read the little warning that you must be on the most recent version of I-Tunes.... Correcting that mistake took about three hours.
So, imagine my surprise when I added some songs via download to my I-Tunes library and attempted to sync...and blew up my IPhone again. After downloading the music but before the sync process, I decided to attempt to back up my purchased songs. I started the backup process and it asked for a CD. I decided to forgo this as I knew I would lose the CD and it would be a useless task in futility to continue. I thought I cancelled the backup and started the sync. Not only did it continue the backup of all songs in my library (not the songs I selected), it decided to store it in the connected device (my IPhone), overwriting all of my music.
No problem, I thought.... I'll just restore from backup. I sat and watched the progress meter for over an hour and decided to go to bed because the process was so slow. I woke up and found it in the same condition. I started it again and because the backup was now in on the phone and the file extension was not recognized by ITunes as a sync file, it would not overwrite the data on my phone. I grabbed my PC, headed to work, and finished it up here. I had to manually erase the data from my phone through Settings/General, then sync again. I started at 9 AM and it was almost 3 PM when the process was finished. The only good thing from all of this? My phone didn't ring the entire time!