iOS5? I think I’ll wait.

I kept receiving the following:

“An error occurred while backing up this iPhone (-50). Would you like to continue to update this iPhone?
Continuing will result in the loss of all contents on this iPhone.”

Looks like I’m stuck. The same thing happened when I tried to upgrade my iPad. Any suggestions on how to make this work?

Fortunately, I was able to upgrade both laptop and desktop Macs to Mac OS X 10.7.2. Let’s hope Apple finally fixed the File Sharing / Wake from Sleep bug when attempting to access a remote machine.

Update: I was able to get my iPhone4 to update to iOS5 by following the steps below:

1. Manually back up all data from the iPhone using iTunes
2. Erase the iPhone
3. Install iOS5
4. Restore data from the iPhone backup

That seemed to work for the iPhone. I’ll repeat the same procedure with the iPad.

-Krishna

Krishna October 13, 2011 frustration, iOS5, iPad, iphone