Help/Support Save files are lost when upgrading to ios8

Saberlarry · June 26, 2015

My ipad 4 was on 7.0.4 and i just jb it to 8.3 today, before jb i had backup apps and their documents and datas as usual, but now when i transfer them back, the apps run just fine but the game saves are all lost. Anyone knows how to fix this? Ive read a post suggesting to browse the Containers and data folders but i dont know what to do with. Documents and other folders inside data folder are all blank, while in containers there are too many files and i dont know which of them is a save file. Thanks, dont want to put hundreds of hours into telltale's games and chaos rings 3 again

Rook · June 26, 2015

If your saves are lost, then you can't restore them.

You can browse through your backups via iBackupBot and maybe extract them one by one if they're there.

Saberlarry · July 7, 2015

Sorry for late reply, it's me kayjay. I tried your method, it doesnt work, or i just dont know how to do it. I have 3 programs for installing and browsing, iFunbox, iTools and the newly installed iBackupbot, but whenever i try to install an old app, instead of transfering old datas with it, it just installs as a fresh one with no data. That's strange because it never happened from 5-7, only ios8 recently. I know that my old datas are backup, because the app size is big. i understand that they changed the save location in ios 8, now im just wondering how to get access to my old apps and extract the documents folder

Updated July 7, 2015 by Saberlarry

Rook · July 7, 2015

Sorry for late reply, it's me kayjay. I tried your method, it doesnt work, or i just dont know how to do it. I have 3 programs for installing and browsing, iFunbox, iTools and the newly installed iBackupbot, but whenever i try to install an old app, instead of transfering old datas with it, it just installs as a fresh one with no data. That's strange because it never happened from 5-7, only ios8 recently. I know that my old datas are backup, because the app size is big. i understand that they changed the save location in ios 8, now im just wondering how to get access to my old apps and extract the documents folder

How do you install an old app actually?

And if you need help getting back your old account, message me as you're not allowed to have two.

Saberlarry · July 7, 2015

it's just i was lazy to make an account, so i login with 2 different facebook accounts.

do you know how to open an app that is not in the device and browse its files? Because that's what i havent figured out. If i can do that i will have the chance to extract save datas.

Rook · July 7, 2015

it's just i was lazy to make an account, so i login with 2 different facebook accounts.

do you know how to open an app that is not in the device and browse its files? Because that's what i havent figured out. If i can do that i will have the chance to extract save datas.

You can only open the .IPA as an archive but it has no save data.

I will merge your previous account to this new one.