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Backing up for a device switch?
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Hey friends! I'm planning to upgrade from my current iPad 4th gen to either an iPad Air or Retina Mini tomorrow or Friday. What is the best way, or is there even a way, to get my current workflow library onto my new device. I'll be restoring from an iCloud backup, but I don't know what all data is put into that. First time. Of course, my files in Editorial can all be migrated to the Dropbox folder, but it concerned about my workflows. The shared ones can be redownloaded, but I have three I've yet to share, still in progress, and I already accidentally deleted one the other day by misplacing and removing (without thinking) a conditional, after implementing over ten conditionals with nested. Needless to say it was embarrassing and now that it's near rebuilt to where it was, I'd like to be able to restore my iPads backup to the new one and continue working.
TL;dr
How can I backup and keep the workflows I'm still working on that aren't shared to directory when upgrading my device and getting rid of the current one?
If nothing else, I just thought about maybe sharing them, but not making them public. If I do that, can I at least make note of the link and revisit them, redownloaded on new device, and continue working on them?
Thanks for any tips or ideas. Cheers!
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Thanks for the reply! The server isn't responding for me so far today, for the main page of the directory or individual links, so I'll try and check it out later.
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Figures, it works after I say that. This is a pretty sweet workflow by the looks of it. I suppose being by @olemoritz it's safe to assume it's been tested and does work. This looks to be just perfect. Thanks for linking it.
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It saved my bacon when I had a sync problem with Dropbox and had to delete the app and re-install.
--- just restored and everything was good except for keyboard snippets... I'm still hoping to see a TextExpander Touch back on deck!
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Yeah TE touch will be back in the upcoming update, I'm sure. I so can't wait for that! Well, this backup workflow is awesome. However, I didn't need it in this case. Never having owned another iDevice, I was unsure how extensive icloud actually was at backups. But it restored everything, all my workflows, even the bookmarks bar and app browser's bookmark menu. Pretty sweet. Haven't checked the snippets yet. Though some I use are actually saved as workflows with the TE syntax action and an abbreviation, just so I could use a fill-in snippet mainly. iCloud even restored my full Pythonista script library,mwhich surprised me since I had heard concern about it before. But it's alright, even though I did spend a long time backing that up to a DB folder - now I have copies of each script and a zipped workflow backup in DB. So awesome too, by the way, that it can back them up to a zip file. I like that a lot. Thanks again for sharing it!
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Yep, iCloud/iTunes backup includes everything that isn't explicitly excluded by the developer (which is usually only done for large data that can be re-downloaded via other means).
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Awesome. The folks at Apple weren't very informative for me, with their responses all sounding quite boilerplate. Though, most customer service places run on scripted scenarios. Glad it works the way it does, I was impressed. I even got to keep TaskPaper, despite Apple's help people telling me it wouldn't reinstall. As for Editorial, I think I'm going to keep a regular backup anyway of my workflows, good to have in case I delete one again like a moron. I'm so glad these two apps have forums!
