Microsoft recovered “most” Sidekick users’ data

It looks like we’re finally at the end of the great Sidekick disaster. Well, we thought we were already at the end when T-Mobile said that the data was lost and offered users gift cards and free data for a month. Now it looks like we’ll be able to put a bit of a happier note to the end of this tale for those users who may have lost all of their data.

Microsoft is claiming that it was able to recover “most” of the data that was lost in the recent server problems. The data that we all assumed was lost should now be able to return to users or should sometime soon at least. The data, including contacts, calendar entries, to dos and photos are included in all that data. The data isn’t all available right now, but Microsoft hopes to push it all out “as soon as possible.” Of course, this might exclude some users, as only “most” of the data was recovered. Hopefully, those people whose data was truly lost never turned off their phone, or let it run out of battery so the RAM retained it all.

It is great news that most of the data has been recovered, especially considering the fact that T-Mobile announced it was all pretty much gone forever. The whole deal should teach us all a valuable lesson, as well. Even data on the cloud should be backed up locally if possible. That way, if something unforeseeable, like say a giant corporation accidentally losing all of the information, happens, the files you need are still there for you. It’s doubtful that many of us backup their phone data to a computer despite the option to, which we should maybe start doing.

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