Is it safe to run Xperia Transfer twice?

[TomKay]

When I first ran Xperia Transfer to transfer data from my iPhone to my new Z1C (quite a while ago), the transfer did not complete because some of the filenames on the iPhone had ":" characters in them which cannot be used in file names on the Z1C SD card.

I'm also not 100% sure whether all my TXT messages were transferred.

If I run Xperia Transfer again, will I get a lot of duplicate TXT messages and contacts, or will the software be clever about the already existing data?

[Uliwooly]

It'll be easiser to sync everything with Google then sync back with your Z1 compact

Alternatives on How to backup Xperias

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36355

[TomKay]

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@uliwooly wrote:

It'll be easiser to sync everything with Google then sync back with your Z1 compact

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Thanks, that's a good idea in general, but my old SMS messages are on an iPhone (3GS). I cannot sync those to Google, can I?

[Uliwooly]

There might be a way to do so