As best I can tell, the installer has multiple problems and poor error handling and error recovery. As a result, I'm having to redownload all ten zillion purchased apps and media on to my iPad. I've learned the hard way that what I thought was a comprehensive iPad backup was actually not operating properly, yet no error messages were produced.` Thus, I suspect I'll simply lose some of my media, and a lot of content and media that I had placed into my primary non-Apple app, Goodreader.
Fortunately, all my e-books were bought through the Kindle App, and it has all my e-books and bookmarks ready for normal use. Can't say the same for Apple's iBooks app. It apparently ate my personally added PDF e-book content as a part of the upgrade process and I am having to redownload all Apple-sourced (mostly free) e-books.
At various Mac forums, I've read many horror tales of people bricking their iPhones, iPods, and iPads as a result of trying to upgrade to IOS 5. Doesn't sound like a good post-Steve Jobs start for the new Apple...very sad.
More details by worldwide users are provided at this forum, among others:
https://www.macworld.com/article/162983/2011/10/some_users_face_problems_upgrading_to_ios_5.html
My personal assessment is that many of the problems, perhaps even most of them, are not caused by server overload but rather by bugs in the backup and restore systems and problems in the upgrade installer and perhaps iTunes.
Needless to say, I am not a happy camper, but I'm glad I didn't try to upgrade my iPod touch, which I actually use much more than my iPad. Losing my calendar and contacts and notes would have not been a good day, but fortunately I held off on upgrading my iPod Touch until I was sure the upgrade would actually work reasonably well.
YMMV, but I strongly recommend holding off on this upgrade until they fix at least some of its problems.
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Best wishes,
Phil Bunch
Phil Bunch
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