{"id":1491,"date":"2011-06-12T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:52:06","slug":"apples-ipad-notes-app-deleted-all-your-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/12\/apples-ipad-notes-app-deleted-all-your-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s iPad “Notes” app deleted all your documents?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If that’s what you *think* just happened, then check this:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Settings App\n
  2. ..Mail, Calendar, etc\n
  3. ….your Gmail account\n
  4. ……the “Notes” slider; is is set to “off”?\n<\/ol>\n

    If so, flip it to ON, find a working wifi \/ 3G signal, and your documents will miraculously re-appear.<\/p>\n

    For most people, there is no way they want Gmail ripping all their private documents off the iPad – but this is apprently how Apple stupidly coded the Notes app.<\/p>\n

    You don’t get a choice; if that slider is “ON”, all your private stuff is deleted locally and saved to Gmail. There’s no warning, no user-interface to tell you it’s doing this – everything is silent. There’s also – so far as I can tell – no way to “reclaim” your documents and get them put back on the iPad, where they belong. Where Apple pretended they were in the first place.<\/p>\n

    If you ever accidentally hit that switch, all your documents just vanish.<\/p>\n

    What happens if you have no network connectivity, or lose 3G signal? Again, it seems you lose your documents.<\/p>\n

    Moral of the story: never, ever trust software written by a hardware company that refuses software engineering standard practices<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If that’s what you *think* just happened, then check this: Settings App ..Mail, Calendar, etc ….your Gmail account ……the “Notes” slider; is is set to “off”? If so, flip it to ON, find a working wifi \/ 3G signal, and your documents will miraculously re-appear. For most people, there is no way they want Gmail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}