Moving GPS Essentials to a New Device

[nhoe...@sinet.ca]

In the past, I would store GPS Essentials data in a folder that I could access and copy over to the new device.  With GPS Essentials using /Android/data/com.mictale/gpsessentials, it is still possible to copy the data via adb.  However, It is easier to select all Streams and export as an MFT file.  If I import this MFT file, what am I missing compared to the old method?  Do I need to manually adjust Settings?

[mic...@mictale.com]

That's a good question!

The MFT format is designed to contain all data from selected streams in a lossless format. This should be equivalent to copying the database, plus you have control over which streams you want to write into the file. I will make the file format public when I find the time, in case you're interested, it is a chunked protobuf format which is quite efficient in size and read/write performance. However, it is binary and cannot be read with other apps.

App settings (including dashboard configurations and everything under preferences have previously been stored in internal storage and you will have to re-create them manually.

With recent versions, you will notice a new stream named "Configurations" that contains dashboard configurations. Since this is stream data, you can export it into an MFT file and copy it to a new device. There is one caveat though (consider this a bug): When you import MFT files, you will never overwrite existing streams, so the stream with your existing dashboard configuration will not be overwritten. Instead, you end up with two streams named Configurations and is it on you to find out which one is the imported one and which one is being actually used when you open a dashboard.

However, you can copy elements from the imported Configurations stream over to the local one. The top element in the stream is being used, you can drag one to the top of the stream to start using it.This is also how you can create backups of your dashboard configuration: Long tap on the element in the Configurations stream you want to duplicate, tap on Mark/Mark from the menu, then tap Selection/Copy in the menu. I agree this is all but easy to use right now. I'll work on selecting a dashboard from the dashboard view and merging stream during import.

Enjoy, Michael
mictale.com/ms
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> On Aug 8, 2024, at 2:36 PM, 'nhoe...@sinet.ca' via GPS Essentials <gpsess...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> In the past, I would store GPS Essentials data in a folder that I could access and copy over to the new device. With GPS Essentials using /Android/data/com.mictale/gpsessentials, it is still possible to copy the data via adb. However, It is easier to select all Streams and export as an MFT file. If I import this MFT file, what am I missing compared to the old method? Do I need to manually adjust Settings?
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