14. Restore Your DeviceBEFORE YOU BEGIN 8 Install the BlackBerry Desktop Software 9 Connect Your Device to Your PC 13 Back Up Your Device SEE ALSO 15 Clear Personal Data from Your Device 14. Restore Your Device Hopefully, you'll never need to actually use this task, and you're just reading it now to be thorough. Or maybe you've been conscientious about making regular backups and your commitment to preserving your data has paid off when you needed it most. Either way, restoring backed -up data to your device is an important and often necessary part of being a BlackBerry user . Just keep in mind that your ability to restore data is limited only by your willingness to back it up on a regular basis. I apologize if I sound a bit preachy in regard to backing up regularly, but I've been burned before. And I can tell you it is a terrible feeling to know that you lost some valuable information only because you didn't take the time to back it up.
In the Backup/Restore window you'll find the current PIM data on your device next to the data available in the backup you selected for restoration. The right pane in the Backup/Restore window shows the current data on your device, whereas the left pane shows the data in the specified backup file. Depending on how old the backup file is and whether you performed a full backup to the file, the left pane will more or less match the right pane. NOTE The Backup/Restore window also lets you back up data from your device to a backup file. For more information, see 13 Back Up Your Device . Similarly, you can use the Backup/Restore window to clear data from your device. See 15 Clear Personal Data from Your Device to find out how. To perform a selective restoration of a certain piece of information, click the entry in the left pane and then click the Restore button (the large right arrow) between the panes. You can use this technique to selectively restore a subset of the backup file to your device. Using the calendar events and AutoText examples from earlier, if you want to restore only calendar and AutoText information from a backup file, just hold down the Ctrl key and click AutoText and Calendar in the right pane; then click the Restore button. TIP To select more than one piece of information for restoration, hold down the Ctrl key on your desktop keyboard while clicking the entries in the left pane of the Backup/Restore window. TIP If information on your device changes while you have the Backup/Restore window open, click the Refresh button to update the right pane so the changes are reflected. Click the Close button to exit the Backup/Restore window and return to the main Backup and Restore window. To return to the main BlackBerry Desktop Manager window, click the Close button once more. |