From a0793dd37030f7213ecb07a018b11e6a8adf9238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Besson Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:56:26 +0200 Subject: feat(android): back the phone's contacts up to a group of one's own A Contacts backup section on the Android Sync page sends a dated .vcf into /-contacts once a day when the address book changed, only to a group the account is alone in, checked again at every run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/USERGUIDE.md | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/USERGUIDE.md') diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index ebcf152..9daf71b 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -408,7 +408,24 @@ of your groups, once a day. - **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 in Settings, and tries again the next day. + notification and on the Android Sync page, and tries again the next day. + +### Backing up your phone's 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`. +- 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. ### Search -- cgit v1.2.3