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How to back up and restore your BlackBerry
using BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac
Have you ever wondered how you can save your BlackBerry® smartphone data to your Mac®? Well,
wonder no more! BlackBerry® Desktop Software for Mac will quickly and easily save your information
(even media files!) to your Mac. It never hurts to be prepared for those “what if” situations! Let’s take a
peek at how you would go about creating an automatic backup, restoring a previous backup file and how
to backup/synchronize any media that’s on your BlackBerry smartphone.
Let’s start by connecting your BlackBerry smartphone to your Mac using a USB cable. To enable
automatic back up, select Device Options, then Back up. Here, you can schedule your Mac to back up your
BlackBerry smartphone whenever it is connected on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, or even every time
you connect your BlackBerry smartphone. Now that’s easy!
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In addition to automatic backups, you can also perform a manual backup. To do this, open BlackBerry
Desktop Software for Mac and click on the Backup icon that appears in the top right corner.
You can then back up all of your data, or selected data such as your contacts or messages. You can also
protect the backup file by adding encryption to it, which then requires a password to open the backup file
contents. If you opt to encrypt the backup file, pick a password that you won’t forget, as the restore
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process does not provide any password hints.
Back up times can vary, depending on how much data is on the BlackBerry smartphone, so sit back and
relax while the BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac does the work for you!
What about media files? Let’s revisit the Summary screen, and this time, select Import Media.
Depending on how large your media card is, you can opt to delete the media from your BlackBerry
smartphone after the import process by checking off the box in options.
Now, what if you lost your BlackBerry smartphone and need the information from that device for your
new replacement? BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac can come to the rescue!
On the summary page, we are going to select Restore from the top right corner. A menu will pop allowing
us to select the file we want to restore. If the backup file was encrypted, the password will have to be
entered in order to restore it. Similar to the backup process, you can select which data you want to restore
to your BlackBerry smartphone.
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Restoring Media works a bit differently, as it is synchronized to your BlackBerry smartphone. On the
righthand side of BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac, select Music, Pictures and Videos.
Within Music, you can select by artists, playlists or genres, and even fill your media card with random
songs from your library if you want.
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With your Pictures, you can transfer them all from your library, or specific ones by events or last import.
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In the Videos menu, you can select individual ones, or all of them.
When you are ready, click on the green sync arrows in the corner, and when it’s done synchronizing, your
new BlackBerry smartphone will be just like your old one – at least data-wise!
Tip: If you don’t plan on using your old BlackBerry smartphone, you should consider performing a
security wipe to remove any personal information before giving it to someone else. Check out the
following post for an overview how to perform a security wipe – What is a security wipe and when should
I use it?
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