Microsoft to restore remaining Sidekick contacts this week, other stuff 'shortly thereafter'

Sidekick users tend to be an active, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants bunch, so it's gotta hurt like the dickens when they don't have access to their schedules and little black books -- but hey, at least it's still recoverable, right? Microsoft has just posted a quick update to keep everyone abreast on the progress of its Sidekick data recovery, and it sounds like they'll be able to have remaining missing contacts back in action this week with the rest of the data -- to-dos, notes, photos, and the like -- following on "shortly thereafter." Anyone who didn't lose information in the debacle should be unaffected by the recovery process, but for those who did, these backup tapes couldn't possibly load into Danger's feisty data center fast enough.

[Ignatius Posted Oct 19th 2009 9:42AM]

Well, at least everything is coming back pretty quick. Bet they'll be making backups now.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2009 3:27PM]

Ed Itorial
October 21st, 2009 at 12:17 am
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This announcement by MS appears to be a big lie. The only data being “recovered” is contacts….no word about the rest: “Microsoft/Danger continues its efforts to recover pictures, calendar entries and to-do lists, which may be available in the future.”
For those who get some phone numbers back, lots appears to be missing. Read the comments at:
http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/good-news-everyone/comment-page-1#comment-40560
Lots of people are reporting that they are missing lots of their data…either many contacts not restored, or only names recovered with no data. So, be prepared. This looks like they had some DB guru handwrite a routine to follow pointer chains along the wreckage of the database….which means that they have no way of knowing how much they did, or didn’t recover. The comments I’m seeing
“I had 140 contacts and they only restored 84 of them”
“It restored the name of the person but no other info”
“If you had multiple phone nums or email addys for a person it only restored one of them.”
Also, already, lots of people are getting the error message which says they were unable to recover anything at all.
http://twitgoo.com/4fdl2
SO, don’t get your hopes up. This looks like another epic fail by MS, cloaked in corporate happyspeak.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2009 3:37PM]

This announcement by MS appears to be a big lie. The only data being “recovered” is contacts….no word about the rest: “Microsoft/Danger continues its efforts to recover pictures, calendar entries and to-do lists, which may be available in the future.”
For those who get some phone numbers back, lots appears to be missing. Read the comments at: hiptop3.com/archives/good-news-everyone/comment-page-1#comment-40560
Lots of people are reporting that they are missing lots of their data…either many contacts not restored, or only names recovered with no data. So, be prepared. This looks like they had some DB guru handwrite a routine to follow pointer chains along the wreckage of the database….which means that they have no way of knowing how much they did, or didn’t recover. The comments I’m seeing
“I had 140 contacts and they only restored 84 of them”
“It restored the name of the person but no other info”
“If you had multiple phone nums or email addys for a person it only restored one of them.”
Also, already, lots of people are getting the error message which says they were unable to recover anything at all.
twitgoo.com/4fdl2
SO, don’t get your hopes up. This looks like another epic fail by MS, cloaked in corporate happyspeak.