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17th May 2005 - Link Blog

Mac OS X 10.4: "Erase data on device" is the default first sync option in iSync 2.0 (via) This bug wiped my phone’s address book. Thankfully it’s fixed in 10.4.1.

Posted 17th May 2005 at 5:23 pm

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