Hey yall,
Months of installs and recoveries had left extra folders and tmp files so I finally decided to do a master reset on my Captivate. I did a forced redo of apps and data on Titanium Backup and sent it to my drop box.
I want to restore some pictures that were saved on the phone.
Does Titanium backup our picture files from their portion of the Internal SD card?
If so what file in the back up would it be?
Hey guys, ive got little space left on my sd card in my nexus.
Can i format it? What do i do with the clockwork folder?
Thank you
If you do not intend to flash a new ROM then no you can't. I'm pretty sure you can if you flash a ROM, but remember to backup your photos and music first.
Is there a reason why you can't just delete some of your media or photos? If you've done a few nandroid backups in CWM you can delete any old ones in the app.
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Actually, after a few more seconds thought, if you've copied your music and photos onto your computer, I'm pretty sure you could do this:
1) do a complete nandroid backup
2) locate it, copy the entire directory to your computer
3) make a note of where it came from (the directory tree)
4) format your sdcard
5) copy your nandroid backup back to your sdcard making sure the directory structure is the same as before
6) restore your nandroid backup
There may be important catalogue files in the CWM directory, so it may be better to copy the entire CWM backup directory tree from its root.
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Ive tought the same thing. I deleted my old backups, then i backup music and photos (7gb~) theni copy the whole clockwork folder back to the telephone?
elinho said:
Ive tought the same thing. I deleted my old backups, then i backup music and photos (7gb~) theni copy the whole clockwork folder back to the telephone?
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To restore from a nandroid from complete stock just create a folder called clockworkmod. Inside that folder create another called backup. In that folder paste your old backup file. If you format the whole sd card some files and settings will be missing when you restore.
IMO its easier to copy all the files you want to your pc, then just go through your phone and delete all the files you don't use on a regular basis
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elinho said:
Ive tought the same thing. I deleted my old backups, then i backup music and photos (7gb~) theni copy the whole clockwork folder back to the telephone?
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I just did that, and it worked fine. Everything was te same as before the format. I only had 2gb of photos though. Maybe you should go through yours before copying back to your phone and weed out any you don't need.
I use the instant upload with G+ (WiFi Only) and as I take photos, they get uploaded to a private album. Once they're uploaded I delete them from the phone. Saves space .
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I use the instant upload with G+ (WiFi Only) and as I take photos, they get uploaded to a private album. Once they're uploaded I delete them from the phone. Saves space .
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Does it keep them at full Q? Been thinking about it but was waiting for G+ to allow Google Apps accounts
After just rooting first thing I want to do is a nand backup, but after backup complete it is only like 16meg!
Am I missing something here?
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You are doing nothing wrong... Inside the Clockworkmod folder is 2 other folders... Backup and Blobs...
Backup backs up settings and preferences, Blobs backs up the system data, apps and so forth...
DON'T delete the blobs folder or you won't be able to re-install backup.
Every backup uses the Blobs data files so the actual backup file is very small. Use your file manager to check the properties of the clockworkmod folder and it will be a bit bigger, same with blobs...
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You are doing nothing wrong... Inside the Clockworkmod folder is 2 other folders... Backup and Blobs...
Backup backs up settings and preferences, Blobs backs up the system data, apps and so forth...
DON'T delete the blobs folder or you won't be able to re-install backup.
Every backup uses the Blobs data files so the actual backup file is very small. Use your file manager to check the properties of the clockworkmod folder and it will be a bit bigger, same with blobs...
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Hi thanks for the reply,
ok i found the blods folder.
Problem now is i deleted old backups from recovery, but the blods folder seems to be the same size, i.e. taking up a lot of room on internal mem.
What's up with this?
Clockwork normally made backups in an individual folder, then you could delete the folder/backup, that was it...
Need to reset my wife's huwaie(sp?) G300 and format the sd card as it seems to have duplicated itself somehow!?! I've used mybackup to backup- can I simply copy the generated backup file to a laptop so that I can format the sdcard, then copy the backup (apk file?) back to the sdcard to restore the pics/apps etc?
Many thanks in advance!!
Use Titanium Backup application from Google play.
Install Titanium Backup and restore all installed apps including the data (like saved profiles of games) to sd card. The folder will be created on sd card as Titanium Backup. You can just copy and paste the images and videos manually from sd card to your pc along with the titanium backup folder.
Now you can format the sd card and reinstall apps from backup.
Hope this helped you.
NOTE: Titanium Backup requires root since it can backup and modify system apps too.
If your mobile doesn't have root use "App Backup and Restore" from Google play.
I am running ViperXL and it was acting up a bit so I backed up my contacts using titanium backup and reinstalled the rom. I then tried to restore the backup and it will not restore. It claims it does but I have zero contacts in my phone. Because I value my time I really need to get the numbers and names out of the files that I have saved (the backups). Is there a way to view them that is understandable? I decompressed most of the files but it's just a jumbled mess.
Thanks for any help!