will ios 5.0.1 upgrade erase my keyboard shortcuts?

[mbernard]

Hello

I have and iPad2 and iOS 5.0. I've made about 200 keyboard shortcuts in General/Keyboard/Shortcuts. Will they be erased if/when I update to iOS 5.0.1?

I'm asking because, when I upgraded from iOS 4 to iOS 5 I lost all my ibook settings, and had to spend ages restoring the books from Calibre, re-creating Collections, and moving the books into them.

That wasn't so bad. But it took me hours to make all my shortcuts. It's not something I want to have to do again in a hurry!

PS Is there a good program for backing up all iPad2 data (including iBooks) and custom settings?

Thanks

Mary

 

[Hayles66]

No, my shortcuts are still there! I back up to iCloud now. So much easier.

Sent from my one and only original iPad using iPF

 

[leelai]

Hi Mary and welcome to the Forum,

I can't answer your question as I haven't updated to 5.1 as yet but I'd like to know the answer to it as I have some shortcuts as well, not as many as you though. You must have a good memory to remember them all.

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[Hayles66]

Oops! Thanks Leelai! Welcome from me too! Didn't see that you were a noobie!

Sent from my one and only original iPad using iPF

 

[leelai]

Thanks for your answer too for when I do update, one less thing to worry about!

 

[leelai]

Thanks

 

[jsh1120]

200 keyboard shortcuts?! I have trouble remembering six. Mary, you have missed your calling if you're not a court reporter.

 

[mbernard]

No, my shortcuts are still there! I back up to iCloud now. So much easier.
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Thanks for the info. I'll go ahead and update.

 

[mbernard]

200 keyboard shortcuts?! I have trouble remembering six. Mary, you have missed your calling if you're not a court reporter.

It's actually more than 200, more like 4-500. But they've evolved from a short set -- I've been using them since the late 1980s. I make sure to structure them, so that they're easy to remember. 3-letter shortcuts for months, 4-letter for days. All contractions have 2-4 letter shortcuts. It's much much easier to type 'dnn' than 'don't', 'shdn' for 'shouldn't'. Lots are the same basic word + ed or ing: spose=suppose; sposd=supposed; tk=think; tkg=thinking. And so forth. some shortcuts are just the lower-case version of names: john=John, etc. It makes typing much faster, though it has its little snags.

Mary

 

[jsh1120]

It's actually more than 200, more like 4-500. But they've evolved from a short set -- I've been using them since the late 1980s. I make sure to structure them, so that they're easy to remember. 3-letter shortcuts for months, 4-letter for days. All contractions have 2-4 letter shortcuts. It's much much easier to type 'dnn' than 'don't', 'shdn' for 'shouldn't'. Lots are the same basic word + ed or ing: spose=suppose; sposd=supposed; tk=think; tkg=thinking. And so forth. some shortcuts are just the lower-case version of names: john=John, etc. It makes typing much faster, though it has its little snags.

Mary

I'm in awe.

 

[Jockscrap]

It's actually more than 200, more like 4-500. But they've evolved from a short set -- I've been using them since the late 1980s. I make sure to structure them, so that they're easy to remember. 3-letter shortcuts for months, 4-letter for days. All contractions have 2-4 letter shortcuts. It's much much easier to type 'dnn' than 'don't', 'shdn' for 'shouldn't'. Lots are the same basic word + ed or ing: spose=suppose; sposd=supposed; tk=think; tkg=thinking. And so forth. some shortcuts are just the lower-case version of names: john=John, etc. It makes typing much faster, though it has its little snags.

Mary

Mary..this is genius. I've just added a few, copying your system. I never thought of using the keyboard shortcuts for saving me typing an apostrophe. I'll be the look out for new words I find a pain to type and adding them to the list from now on. Thanks for the great tip.