Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them.

On 2024-11-07 19:26, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-11-07 14:17, Java Jive wrote:

>
2 I think this might be the same one as you reach by the path you gave
above.  It is a single switch option which was already enabled, and is
fully described thus:
>
"Back up your device data and app data automatically to Google Drive
(including WiFi passwords, the Phone log, app settings, and related files.
>
App data may include personal information such as contacts, messages,
and pictures."
>
If I could find out how to restore only the WiFi settings from that to a
different phone, I guess I'd be home and dry, but I can't even find out
how to use it to restore to the *SAME* phone that it was made from.

>
Now that Google Drive is enabled and functional on both devices, both
have made a backup, each of which the other can see listed, but, even on
the same device as made the backup, you can't actually *DO* anything
with these backups, other than delete them.

    Ain't that great! Who needs restore?
    Let me check my phone:
    Settings -> Accounts and backup ->
 "Samsung Cloud
   Back up data (offers choices for what (not) to back up)
   Restore data (offers choices for what (not) to restore)
('Settings' choice includes Wi-Fi settings!)

But no granularity, so you can't restore just one item or set of items from the Settings, and you can't restore to a non-Samsung phone, and perhaps even any phone other than the one that made the backup, though I'm unsure of that last point.

  Google Drive
   Back up data"
(has no restore section!)

Yes, ridiculous!  Google seems to be keener on having your data to trawl than actually allowing you, the owner of it, to use it meaningfully! Presumably what is supposed to happen is that, if your phone gets wiped, it will offer to restore from the last backup, but I'm not about to test that by wiping my phone!  Today's tests have reminded me why I always had Google Drive disabled from the start.
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