Yesterday morning when I switched on my Nokia N95 the browser wouldn’t start. The screen flashed and nothing - immediate exit. I’d not been fiddling with it, hadn’t changed bookmarks, nothing! Maybe it was the diet of celebrity trash that is was displaying during testing one of our current projects. But seriously, how can that happen? Software just stops working. Hardware I understand, but in all the too-many-to-count years I’ve been fighting with software, I’ve never understood how this sort of thing can happen.

I had to backup the content, reinstall the phone, and restore the backup. This worked impressively well, although it’s a nerve racking experience. The only thing that isn’t exactly back as it was pre-backup is the location of downloaded applications. These have all moved back to the Applications folder, so I’ll have to sort them out into more logical places.

The recovery process was very good, however the problem shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

OK, take that back - not everything was restored! Two of our applications failed to be restored. Oh well, downloading them again is easy, but shouldn’t be needed.

And more - my Flickr details have not been restored. Sigh.

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