1 month ago
Microsoft ActiveSync just did the dumbest thing.
For those who don't know, ActiveSync is the software used to synchronize data between Windows Mobile phones and computers, usually for backing up. And this morning, I did exactly that with my HTC Touch and my desktop computer.
Except the desktop computer had never been synced before, and my HTC still had two active sync relationships - my Thinkpad and my Asus laptop - and it would not allow me to sync unless I got rid of one. Since I don't really use the Asus that often now, I decided to remove that relationship to free a slot up for my desktop.
Bad move.
In its infinite wisdom, ActiveSync decided that the newer sync information was the, ahem, non existent information on my computer rather than the actual information on my phone. In other words, it thought that I had recently disconnected myself from the entire world and had deleted all my contacts, appointments and tasks in a fit of sorrow and injustice, but forgot to do the same for my phone.
In other words, it is a freaking idiot.
So now I have no contacts, no appointments and no task list.
I swore profusely for about three minutes straight. I am dead serious. The contacts I can restore, since I have a backup from last year (so I hope I didn't make any friends in the last six months). The appointments are no big deal, since I'm not itching to attend appointments in the past and I already called up work to get my shifts back.
Its the task list I'm annoyed about. There was something in there that was unrecoverable. There's only one person who knows what it is, and I guess now no one else will know.
But hey, maybe in a weird way this is a sign.
You probably will never know what that means. :)
alacarte
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