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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index d8e793f..4c5c61e 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -382,55 +382,58 @@ coordinates are still inside the photo itself, as your phone wrote them, so anyone who downloads the original file has them. Strip them before sharing if that matters to you. -### Backing up your phone's photos +### Backing up your phone -On the Android application, **Phone → Android Sync** in the side menu holds -**Photo backup**, which sends the photos taken on your phone to a folder of one -of your groups, once a day. +On the Android application, **Phone → Android Sync** in the side menu backs up +your phone's photos and contacts to a group. -- **Set up** asks for access to your photos, then for a group, a folder and the - albums to send. Only folders you may add to and that the group's Photos tab - shows are offered. The camera is ticked; screenshots and other albums are - yours to add. +**Where backups go** is chosen once, at the top of the page, for every kind: + +- **Only a group you own and are the only member of** can receive them: your + photos and your address book are not the group's. If you have none, create a + group just for yourself first. If somebody joins it or is invited later, + every backup stops and tells you. +- You choose any folder of that group you may add to. Each kind of backup gets + a folder named after you inside it: `Backups/alice-photos`, + `Backups/alice-contacts`. The page tells you if the group's Photos tab does + not show the photos folder; add it in the group settings to see them there. +- Choosing another group or folder later starts every backup again in the new + place. What was already sent stays where it is. + +#### Photos + +- **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. - 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 anything is sent you are told where the photos go, how many members - the group has and how much will be sent. **Everyone in that group will be - able to see and download them.** You can delete what you sent afterwards, - but not the copies others have already downloaded — so pick the group with - care. Changing the group or the folder later asks again. + already there. Before the first send you are told how many photos and how + much that is. - It runs **on Wi-Fi only** (more exactly, on a connection that is not charged - by the amount), once a day, while the application is open — with the screen + by the amount), once a day, while the application is open, with the screen off too. If the application was not opened all day, it runs the next time it is. **Back up now** runs at once; on mobile data it tells you how much it is about to send and asks first. -- Photos go into folders by year, then year and month (`2026/2026-10`). **A photo you delete - from the phone stays in the group**, and one deleted from 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. +- Photos go into folders by year, then year and month (`2026/2026-10`). **A + photo you delete from the phone stays in the group**, and one deleted from + 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. -- If the backup cannot go on — the node's disk is full, the folder no longer - accepts files, you left the group — it stops, says why once in a - notification and on the Android Sync page, and tries again the next day. -### Backing up your phone's contacts +#### Contacts -**Contacts backup**, on the same **Android Sync** page, sends a copy of your -phone's contacts to a group, once a day when they have changed. - -- **Only a group you are the only member of** can receive it: your address - book is not something to share. If you have none, create a group just for - yourself first. If somebody joins that group later, the backup stops and - tells you. -- You choose any folder of that group you may add to; the copies go into a - folder named after you inside it, such as `Backups/alice-contacts`. +- **Turn on** asks for access to your contacts, then sends a copy once a day + when they have changed. - Each copy is a `.vcf` file with the date in its name (`contacts-2026-10-10-0900.vcf`). Any phone can import it. Older copies are kept, nothing is ever replaced. - 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. +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. + ### Search The magnifying glass in the sidebar searches **across every group you are in** |