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Do you have a wifi network? If yes then use a file explorer on Android that can do FTP. Use any FTP client on your computer and transfer. I recommend FileZilla.
Do you have a wifi network? If yes then use a file explorer on Android that can do FTP. Use any FTP client on your computer and transfer. I recommend FileZilla.
Ah, that would be bliss.
I thought at least open source ones would do it otherwise considering the freedom they represent.
Looks like it has not reached that point yet.
Suppose I want to keep a backup and decide later what I want to discard, I will have to keep on doing it manually each time to update the archive.
WhatsApp did it properly before where I could easily backup the whole directory which included all media and chat database locally. But now they are forcing Google backups which I do not like. I was looking for alternatives but they all seem to need this kind of manual saves. Eg. Signal, Twin Me, and the recently tried Jami.
What happened to VLC?
Oh, I had forgotten about that one.
Viber is something which I have not tried recently but offline chat backups.
Yes, this is about viable WhatsApp replacement for me and my friends.
Have you checked the official website of WhatsApp? You can only restore local backups if you are on older Android versions. On newer Androids it is only Google backup.
https://faq.whatsapp.com/6181521285295518/?helpref=hc_fnav&cms_platform=android Nowhere will you find reference to local backup other than this. And my experience confirms it.
You might have succeeded because you and I might have been part of A/B testing but this is going to be the future.
I think they do create a local backup for uploading to Google but do not restore from local backup.
No it does not do it now. Only option is cloud restore. I have done it last week.
Volume Control (Simple volume control application without unnecessary features) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.punksta.apps.volumecontrol/
How did you use it? They no longer allow restoring from local backup AFAIK?
They no longer allow local backup.
Do you have time to go to toilet?
I believe it is still better due to raw material availability?
Open them elsewhere is also true for text files I guess.
Compared to this what is the advantage of binary form? I thought log files being text was a no brainer.
Is journald still binary? That alone made me turn away. I am using PCLinuxOS hence am systemd free. Stopped reading up on it.
I did not totally understand what the title is about.