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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index e0c29da..bc16ba6 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -372,6 +372,10 @@ is a folder**. Thumbnails come from the node, already rotated correctly. A photo opens full size, with a slideshow button that moves on every five seconds and stops at the album's last photo. +Videos in an album's folder, such as a phone's clips, show among its photos +with a play mark and their length; open one and press play to watch it. A +slideshow skips them. + A photo you uploaded can be deleted: right-click it, or use the bin in the bar above an open photo (the way in on a phone). The node's operator can delete any photo. Both ask first. @@ -385,7 +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 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 @@ -408,6 +413,10 @@ backup at all. - **Set up** asks for access to your photos, then for the albums to send. The camera is ticked; screenshots and other albums are yours to add. +- **Videos too** adds the videos of the same albums, beside the photos. It is + off by default: videos are large, and the first backup can take a while. + They are sent on Wi-Fi like photos, and show in their albums in the Photos + tab. - By default **the photos already on the phone are sent too**, newest first, then each new one. Choose "Only photos taken from now on" to skip the ones already there. Before the first send you are told how many photos and how @@ -422,7 +431,8 @@ backup at all. the group is not sent again, unless the application is reinstalled. A photo you edit on the phone is sent again beside the original, with `-edited-` and the date in its name. -- **Where a photo was taken is removed** from the copy that is sent. +- **Where a photo or video was taken is removed** from the copy that is sent + (Android 10 and later). #### Contacts @@ -434,6 +444,17 @@ backup at all. - It runs on any connection, since a copy is small. **Back up now** sends one at once if your contacts changed since the last copy. +#### Calendar + +- **Turn on** asks for access to your calendars, then sends a copy once a day + when they have changed. +- It holds every calendar you can edit: your own, local ones and those of the + accounts on the phone. Calendars you only subscribe to (public holidays, + birthdays) are left out. +- Each copy is an `.ics` file with the date in its name + (`calendar-2026-10-10-0900.ics`). Any calendar application can import it; + repeating events, their exceptions and reminders come along. + #### Text messages - **Turn on** asks for access to your text messages. The first copy holds them @@ -446,6 +467,36 @@ 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. + +Beside your photos and files, a `meshbay-manifest` folder holds a small file +per backup run that records where each one came from on the phone (its +album or folder, its original name and dates). It is what will let a restore +put everything back where it was. Leave it in place. + +#### WhatsApp + +- **Choose WhatsApp's folder** opens the picker on it + (`Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp`): press "Use this folder". +- What is copied is WhatsApp's own nightly backup of your chats, still + encrypted by WhatsApp: MeshBay cannot read it, but you can restore it. Turn + on **Media too** to also copy photos, videos, voice notes and documents + (often several gigabytes). +- To restore on a new phone, copy the `Databases` and `Backups` folders of the + latest copy into `Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp` before installing + WhatsApp, then restore with the same phone number (and your password or + 64-digit key if end-to-end encrypted backup is on). + 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. |