Iphone 3GS to laptop Syncing [closed]

Question

I use my Iphone calender to store all my appointments and customer information etc rather than my Outlook calender on my laptop most of the time. To the best of my knowledge I have never lost any info before, but after syncing the two devices today my calender is now empty on both. I had thought that syncing would mean taking the information on both devices, amalgamating it and populating both devices with the same info?

Two questions:

a) Is there anyway of retrieving the lost information? (or am I sunk?)

b) Is there any way of averting such disaster in the future?

Whilst I suspect that "Read the manual - Idiot!" would be the correct response, any help really is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You can restore your iPhone using a backup image, but the Apple syncing process is one way(except purchases made on the device). It takes all the local data on your computer and replaces everything on your iPhone with the local data. To avoid this in the future, you could have the calendar hosted on a CalDAV server or Google Calendar or just use iCal and then sync to your phone.

Answer 2

Unless you emptied your Deleted Items in Outlook, your calendar entries may still be there. It's worth having a look. Then once you've recovered those, use the Google Sync for Outlook to synchronise with your Google Calendar. Then as Madison suggested, use CalDAV to sync your iPhone with Google Calendar.