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| author | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-10-10 15:50:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-10-10 15:50:39 +0200 |
| commit | 1c97ffb91bb4928022e995709d7e55b19cfd18eb (patch) | |
| tree | aaa05d17adcd6db4256c01ba79b27dfc7ec96d70 /docs/USERGUIDE.md | |
| parent | 1521cc1ac0cca7ee8786056f84fa399d5cc268f9 (diff) | |
| download | meshbay-1c97ffb91bb4928022e995709d7e55b19cfd18eb.tar.gz | |
feat(android): back up the files of folders the person chooses
A Files section takes folders through the system picker (no storage
permission), refuses DCIM, Pictures and Movies, skips what the photo backup
sends, and runs on the photo backup's own runner into <folder>/<account>-drive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 7434be2..207e57e 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -389,7 +389,8 @@ that matters to you. ### Backing up your phone On the Android application, **Phone → Android Sync** in the side menu backs up -your phone's photos, contacts, calendar and text messages to a group. +your phone's photos, contacts, calendar, text messages and the files of +folders you choose to a group. Only your **personal profile** is backed up. If your phone has a work profile, nothing in it is sent, and MeshBay installed inside the work profile offers no @@ -466,6 +467,18 @@ backup at all. - The version of the application from the Play Store has no text messages backup: Play allows reading them only to the phone's messaging application. +#### Files + +- **Add a folder** opens Android's folder picker: choose `Documents`, a folder + inside `Download`, or any folder of your own. Android does not let an + application take the whole of `Download`. +- `DCIM`, `Pictures` and `Movies` cannot be chosen: photos and videos are the + photo backup's, and a file it already sends is never sent twice. +- The files go into `alice-drive/<folder>/`, sub-folders kept, on Wi-Fi once a + day like photos. A file you change on the phone is sent again beside the + earlier copy, with `-modified-` and the date in its name; nothing is ever + replaced, and a file you delete on the phone stays in the group. + If a backup cannot go on (the node's disk is full, the folder no longer accepts files, somebody else joined the group), it stops, says why once in a notification and on the Android Sync page, and tries again the next day. |