Yesterday, I upgraded a drawing application, Zeptopad, that I have on my 3G iphone to its latest version V1.5 using the standard mechanism within iTunes. The upgrade went as planned, excepted I was faced with an unpleasant surprise. After the upgrade, Zeptopad had wiped out all on my previous drawings!

I really like the drawing program, but data loss from an upgrade was not in my plans! Fortunately, I didn’t have anything critical on the drawings and they can be recreated, but it does shake my confidence in the program. Too bad since it is a nice program.

If you have Zeptopad on your iPhone, you should export the drawings to your photo roll before you upgrade. Unfortunately, you cannot import them back in a full-size afterwards. I do not know if there is a technical hack on a jailbreaked iPhone to get at the drawings to protect them.

Anyhow, you should protect your drawings before you update to Zeptopad V1.5. Otherwise, they will be lost in the upgrade.

Tags: IPhone, Zeptopad