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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. |