Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them.

Frank Slootweg wrote on 8 Nov 2024 10:47:57 GMT :

  In my experience *most* (non-Google) software doesn't store
configuration settings in the Google account (or Google Drive). They
(have to) store it in their app-private area  (Android\data, etc.) which
means that general purpose backup programs can not access it and hence
can not back it up.

This is for everyone not so much for Frank as I'm sure Frank knows this.

Regarding where apps store their data, (some apps, not all, not even most
perhaps, but some apps) will store data onto the users' external sd card.

For those programs, what I do is format the external sd card with a known
volume label (e.g., 0000-0001) which allows me to pull out that sd card and
put it into another phone which is "expecting" the data in that location.

Works every time... Which makes me wonder...

Why not pull out that sdcard and copy it on Windows to fully back it up?
I don't normally do that because I don't need to, but wouldn't that work?

Summary:
 Q: Would it work to back up an external sdcard to simply "copy" it?
 A: ?

Note I'm aware that won't work for fundamental operating system files which
are stored on sdcard0 and not stored on the external sdcard - but still...