Good Morning. I am newly registered but have been reading the forums for a few months. I have an old iPad one, I am old too, that has worked flawlessly for the last 2.5 years. I have ordered an iPad Air which is supposed to be here on tomorrow. I use it mainly for email, web browsing and reading many books.
About two weeks ago I noticed that the automatic cloud back up is not working. I have read around on the internet about some things to try but none have worked. The main thing I want to preserve on the old one and transfer to the Air are all of my ebooks in Ibooks. There are several hundred obtained from various sources. There are around 2 gigs of books.
If I remove the Ibooks app from the backup list, it will backup then but that does not do me any good. At one point I did delete my last good backup as that was a suggestion from somewhere to get it working again. I have backed the iPad to my computer too but when I look at the size of the backup file it is nowhere near 2 gigs like it is on iCloud.
Even though I have not been able to get a successful iCloud backup with iBooks included it does show that about 2 gigs of data is backed up. When you try to back it up to the Cloud all is does is sit there and act like it is working, does not give you the estimated time remaining and eventually just gives up and says backup was unsuccessful.
So, I am at a loss on how to procede. I have read conflicting information on whether the iPad backups include books that were not obtained from Itunes. It appears my iCloud backup does include all my books if it would work correctly but I am not sure if the computer backup does, just based on size. I am excited about the Air and would like to safely move all my books there or back them up in some other manner where they can be reloaded into iBooks.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I really don't want to lose the books.
Michael
About two weeks ago I noticed that the automatic cloud back up is not working. I have read around on the internet about some things to try but none have worked. The main thing I want to preserve on the old one and transfer to the Air are all of my ebooks in Ibooks. There are several hundred obtained from various sources. There are around 2 gigs of books.
If I remove the Ibooks app from the backup list, it will backup then but that does not do me any good. At one point I did delete my last good backup as that was a suggestion from somewhere to get it working again. I have backed the iPad to my computer too but when I look at the size of the backup file it is nowhere near 2 gigs like it is on iCloud.
Even though I have not been able to get a successful iCloud backup with iBooks included it does show that about 2 gigs of data is backed up. When you try to back it up to the Cloud all is does is sit there and act like it is working, does not give you the estimated time remaining and eventually just gives up and says backup was unsuccessful.
So, I am at a loss on how to procede. I have read conflicting information on whether the iPad backups include books that were not obtained from Itunes. It appears my iCloud backup does include all my books if it would work correctly but I am not sure if the computer backup does, just based on size. I am excited about the Air and would like to safely move all my books there or back them up in some other manner where they can be reloaded into iBooks.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I really don't want to lose the books.
Michael