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genious7 / FanFictionReader

An android app that improves browsing Fan Fiction stories on a mobile device
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Troubles with restoring #78

Open kov9413tam opened 3 years ago

kov9413tam commented 3 years ago

I have a little problem, I tried to restore my stories from the .bak file created in my previous device, but it didn't work. After restoring, the app showed the whole list and it's even shownig the detatails of a given fiction, but doesn't shows text. The only thing i got after opening a story was "File not found". Any ideas?

DarknessxRisenx commented 3 years ago

I'm having the same issues. I did a completely new backup to try to move to a new phone. However i cant get it to accept a backup and actually use it. All i see it say is backup complete but nothing has actually been added back in. I tried the work around of downloading an older version of the app and that doesnt work either. How did you get yours to even let you restore from backup in the first place?

kov9413tam commented 3 years ago

I didn't do anything special, i just simply restored from backup. As I mentioned previously it shows the story list, it even shows the details, but when i try to open a story: File not found. It can be queit frustrating to be honest. My last hope is that i have an older .bak file converted into a zip file that could work, i just don't know how to convert it back to a .bak file.( When this whole cloudfare thing started i tried to backup my stories to the calibre library. It worked, but my phone still contain a lot of deleted stories and i want them back.) Do you have any idea how to convert my 900MB zip file back to a .bak file?

Luminatrix-eng commented 3 years ago

I didn't do anything special, i just simply restored from backup. As I mentioned previously it shows the story list, it even shows the details, but when i try to open a story: File not found. It can be queit frustrating to be honest. My last hope is that i have an older .bak file converted into a zip file that could work, i just don't know how to convert it back to a .bak file.( When this whole cloudfare thing started i tried to backup my stories to the calibre library. It worked, but my phone still contain a lot of deleted stories and i want them back.) Do you have any idea how to convert my 900MB zip file back to a .bak file?

(Sigh) I really wish people would look through the open thread issues for an answer instead of creating new issues. This has already been talked about and a solution was presented by me.

https://github.com/genious7/FanFictionReader/issues/72#issuecomment-824630564https://github.com/genious7/FanFictionReader/issues/72#issuecomment-824630564

Remove the app first then Google and download Fanfiction Reader version 1.58b, where transferring files works, once you transferred the files you can re update to 1.63 by going to play store/downloaded apps and updating the app there.

DarknessxRisenx commented 3 years ago

@Luminatrix-eng SIGH i wish people would actually read the post before commenting something inane and stupid.

I'm having the same issues. I did a completely new backup to try to move to a new phone. However i cant get it to accept a backup and actually use it. All i see it say is backup complete but nothing has actually been added back in. ### I tried the work around of downloading an older version of the app and that doesnt work either. How did you get yours to even let you restore from backup in the first place?

I already tried that workaround and it did absolutely jack squat. Unless BOTH of my restore files are busted then that method did not work for me. When i downloaded 1.58b and tried to restore it said everytime it failed to restore

DarknessxRisenx commented 3 years ago

on more research im kinda pissed. Looks like when i did the backup and transfered the info the backup never actually backed up. Its only a 18mb backup which i just realized. All 1200 stories that were downloaded are now gone as i have no idea how to restore the data to the fanfic reader app or if its even possible.

Luminatrix-eng commented 3 years ago

on more research im kinda pissed. Looks like when i did the backup and transfered the info the backup never actually backed up. Its only a 18mb backup which i just realized. All 1200 stories that were downloaded are now gone as i have no idea how to restore the data to the fanfic reader app or if its even possible.

It sounds like you have a corrupted .bak file. If you had 1,200 stories then the .bak file would have been around 600-700mb of data.

Your best bet to accessing your backup is to use something like library.db in an SQLite reader (like https://sqlitebrowser.org/). If you're using SQLite reader, right click on Tables > fanfiction_library_fts_content and click "Browse Table". You'll be able to see how many stories are in this 18mb backup. 18mb doesn't sound like much but those stories can be added to fanficfare but not sure what you can do to retrieve 1,200 stories.

You'll have to ask @genious7 about that.