Sync Android app to local file

[koch...@gmail.com]

Hi, I'm looking at syncing the MLO android app to a local file instead of the cloud. Is this possible. It only suggests MLO Cloud and Wi-Fi...

Thanks

Regards,

Philip

[Stéph]

WiFi sync is a direct sync between your mobile device and the file on your laptop. It has its limitations, though - the main one of these being that you have to set it up as if synching to a new file every time your laptop WiFi network changes or IP address gets reassigned.

There isn't an option for sync with a file held on a server or some cloud platform other than the MLO Cloud.

Stéphane

[Rodrigo Carmine]

Unfortunately WiFi Sync sucks, it's not practical. And that's a MLO expressive disadvantage for non-cloud users.

[Dwight Arthur]

I think what the OP is requesting is a way to make a backup of the current MLO profile to a file that's resident on the phone. This is obviously not helpful if the phone is lost, stolen, drowned or otherwise inaccessible, but it could be useful if tasks are deleted or modified and the user wants to go back to a prior copy. This would be especially important if the user does not have a desktop or laptop and wants to avoid the cash outlay needed for cloud synch.

I seem to recall way back in the dim history of the early days of MLO/Android that there was an interface to some backup utility on Android. You could go into Settings and designate MLO as a datastore needing backup. As I recall it took a lot of developer attention to make it work across diverse brands of phone and different choices people made in configuring their systems. I believe that it worked well for a while and then the backup system vendor, or maybe it was Android, made some change and everything stopped working. It seems as though too few people were interested to warrant investing further developer time.

-Dwight

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