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Automatically backing up your savegames

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It comes up a little too often that someone lost their savegames because their phone broke, or because they switched device, etc.

To create a backup you need the contents of the folder "andors-trail" that is on your device. This contains file names "savegame1", "savegame2", etc, and a subfolder called "worldmap" (and possibly also a subfolder called "log", but you can ignore that). Make sure you get the worldmap subfolder! Without it your savegames will load, but when you look at the worldmap you will not be able to see all the places you have visited.

It is possible to back up to a PC.
1. Plug your phone into your computer.
2. Turn on data transfer over USB on your phone if needed.
3. Open the file explorer on your computer and find your phone.
4. Navigate to either internal storage or sd card storage depending on your device.
5. Look for the andors-trail folder and copy/download it, with all it's contents to your computer.

That is not automatic though, and not everyone has a PC. So here is an alternative method:
Everyone that has an Android phone (except in China) has a Google account, so this uses Google Drive for the backup.
1. If you don't already have Google Drive installed, install it https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... .apps.docs.
2. Install this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... .drivesync
3. Follow the instructions here: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/co ... gle-drive/, with the following changes:
a) At figure C, choose "Let me create my own folder pair"
b) At figure D, the folder on your device should be the "andors-trail" folder that is already present. Despite what the instructions say, you do not need to create a folder to upload to using Google Drive. When you choose "Remote Folder in Google Drive" there is a small icon at top right that lets you create a new folder from within the autosync app. The default name is the same as the name of the folder on the device, "andors-trail". You can choose any name you want, but that is generally a good choice (for exceptions see below). Set the sync for "Upload only", because you don't really want to sync, you want to backup. Make sure the "Exclude subfolders" checkbox is NOT checked.

Done! You can just wait, and if you have "enable autosync" turned on, your savegame folder will be backed up to Google Drive. Or you can tap the sync icon (two arrows in a circle) and start it immediately.

So what are the exceptions to calling the folder on Google Drive "andors-trail"? Mainly, if you have more than one device then you do not want them both backing up to the same folder, because one backup will overwrite the other! So use, for example, "andors-trail-p" for your phone, and "andors-trail-t" for your tablet. I also do not recommend using the autosync app to sync your savegames between devices unless you are very careful when doing that, for the same reason. You may accidentally overwrite a savegame you wanted to keep.

If you need to restore your savegames or transfer them to a new device it's pretty much the same recipe, but set the sync method to "Download only."
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Re: Automatically backing up your savegames

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It was painful trying to figure out how to export those files in Bluestacks. Best I could do was through Media Manager in Bluestacks and export files invidually however not possible to export the folder itself. I believe you have to root in Bluestacks or some emulator in order to easily transfer folders/files.

If you know easier way to do it, please let me know.
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My initial post here may not work with 0.7.14, because Google forced us to change where the savegames and worldmap are stored, and it's a very inconvenient location :( . I need to look into what is now possible.
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Re: Automatically backing up your savegames

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The use of DriveSync still works. You just need to point it to the new directory and give it permission to access it.
Give it access to Storage/emulated/0/Android/data/Installed apps and sync it to
Storage/emulated/0/Android/data/Installed apps/com.gpl.rpg.AndorsTrail/files/andors-trail
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Re: Automatically backing up your savegames

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I use SyncThing to sync my phone, tablet and TV
- https://syncthing.net/downloads
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This google backup has a great use, maybe it's not very clear: versions of the same savefile. This eliminates the risk of you accidentally saving over an important save and losing things like legendary items and hours of gameplay. You can return your save to the previous version or even create a new save for it. For each savefile google drive save the last 100 versions.
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Good advice :D
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Re: Automatically backing up your savegames

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can you still find the game files inside your phone storage? ive been checking my phone's storage and I don't seem to find the game files
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Use the Load button and then export the savegames to any place you like
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Re: Automatically backing up your savegames

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Hanzo wrote: Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:10 pm can you still find the game files inside your phone storage? ive been checking my phone's storage and I don't seem to find the game files
It depends on what version of Android you have
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