Please help a moron!

[m3r0v1ng1an]

I've been searching these forums for a while and can't find the solution to my problem. I'm probably missing something obvious because what I want to do should be possible.

I have several hundred contacts on my classic iPhone and I want to back them up to my new iMac (which presently has no contacts or address book listings).

I'm afraid to sync the iPhone to iTunes because I fear it will erase my iPhone contacts.

Someone please help. I'm a desperate moron!

[anypats]

Syncing your phone shouldn't erase all of your contacts. Data always precedes no data in a sync. However, if you're really worried about it then you can sign up for a free MobileMe trial to push all of your contacts to the "cloud" and have Mail on your Mac receive them that way.

[m3r0v1ng1an]

Syncing your phone shouldn't erase all of your contacts. Data always precedes no data in a sync. However, if you're really worried about it then you can sign up for a free MobileMe trial to push all of your contacts to the "cloud" and have Mail on your Mac receive them that way.

Actually I tried syncing with my iPod Touch just to test if it would overwrite the existing contacts, and it did.

I suppose the MobileMe solution would work but I can't believe that there isn't an easier solution.

If I add contacts to my iPhone in the field why can't I just plug my iPhone into my iMac and sync the info back to the computer?

[anypats]

Actually I tried syncing with my iPod Touch just to test if it would overwrite the existing contacts, and it did.

I suppose the MobileMe solution would work but I can't believe that there isn't an easier solution.

If I add contacts to my iPhone in the field why can't I just plug my iPhone into my iMac and sync the info back to the computer?
Before I had MobileMe, if I added a contact while at work on the iPhone and then did a sync at home it would add the contact to Contacts on my Mac. Before I had a Mac it would sync the contact to Outlook on my PC. Never had any problems with it losing any information because of a sync.

Now with MobileMe it just pushes the information to my Mac and my PC and to the Cloud online.

[wallisj]

MobileMe syncing without info in the cloud already WILL ERASE your data

It says in the install guide (and i have done it) you MUST sync the data to a mac BEFORE you setup contact syncing with MobileMe as the cloud data REPLACES your data

Sry for caps but i don't want you to lose your data.... sync to address book 1st ... it'll be fine

[anypats]

I guess I didn't really think about it. My iPhone was already synced before I set up MobileMe.

[m3r0v1ng1an]

MobileMe syncing without info in the cloud already WILL ERASE your data

It says in the install guide (and i have done it) you MUST sync the data to a mac BEFORE you setup contact syncing with MobileMe as the cloud data REPLACES your data

Sry for caps but i don't want you to lose your data.... sync to address book 1st ... it'll be fine

Thanks! You just saved me a GIANT headache.