Greetings,
Not sure if this something Ive done when rooting and putting busybox on, but im trying to backup the entire contents of my sdcard to my desktop.
The files start copying, but at some point it fails and most of the folders of high interest are empty on the desktop. I need my titanium backup and mybackuppro, rom backups, etc. What it looks like I have to go into each of these folders and copy manually.
I just want to select all, copy, paste and be done with it.
Has anyone had an experience like this?
same here.
and can see not all folders/files' and even worse: i see dfferent folders with windws explorer, total commander mtp and total commander adb... only on the device itself i can see everything correct...
dn't know what it is, never seen before...
I made some progress here. Im preparing for a firmware upgrade which wipes, so I need this backup.
I noticed that from the root, if I drag one folder alone, it will copy that with all sub-folders properly.
It's only when you copy multiple folders that it fails.
Maybe this is solved in the firmware upgrade to HBOOT 1.35. I will report back here when complete.
Paz75 said:
I made some progress here. Im preparing for a firmware upgrade which wipes, so I need this backup.
I noticed that from the root, if I drag one folder alone, it will copy that with all sub-folders properly.
It's only when you copy multiple folders that it fails.
Maybe this is solved in the firmware upgrade to HBOOT 1.35. I will report back here when complete.
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This appears to be fixed now after the firmware upgrade. Copying all files without any recursion problems
Paz75 said:
This appears to be fixed now after the firmware upgrade. Copying all files without any recursion problems
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same here, update to HBOOT 1.35 and all folders appear in every way and can be copied without problems :good:
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Is there a way to edit the name of the backup files in amons recovery. and is there a way to delete the backups. any help appreciated thanks
The backups are all located in the nandroid folder on your sdcard. the first folder inside nandroid is your device's serial number or something, the ones inside that are the backups, named by date and time. im pretty sure you can renaame these folders with no harm done to nandroids restore abilities and deleting them does absolutely no harm
if you want to edit the internals, you need to unyaffs it
When i rename the back up it will never let me back up so i wouldnt do that.... i lost my backup because of this :/
that sucks
He is right.. i went into the sd card went to nandroid and tried changing the names of the backups to keep them organized and it wouldnt restore.. then i renamed them to what they were before i changed them and they restored succesfully.. so can anyone shed some light if it is even possible to rename these nandroid backups?
Im sure it is an issue with Amon-ra's program.
Go find the guy and ask him.
There is a way to edit the name and still have the backups work.
The original name is BSD-20100330-0745. You apparently need the last part for the date and such. I changed the name to EvilEris1.1 and it failed, but if it is changed to EvilEris1.1-20100330-0745 it works. You just need the "-20100330-0745". So "(name)-20100330-0745" will work.
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Renaming works fine, just don't use spaces or special characters.
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i didnt link the thread he posted that in because i told him about this thread and dont want posts in two places. though you could find it easily im sure....
Excellent, that is better than what I had to do.
Problem solved!!!!!!!
I was just messing around with it for an hour or so and I resolved my own question.... You can name the backups what ever you want.. you dont have to have the dates or anything just no spaces in the name... so if you wanted to name it "Evil Eris 1.1" it would have to be something like this... "Evil-Eris-1.1" No Spaces...
You could also (from a computer with your phone in recovery) do:
adb shell
nandroid-mobile.sh -b
It will ask you what to name it, and then it will automatically add the suffix.
you get the "run mobile.sh" error if you rename the folder directly under the "nandroid" folder on your sd card directory. you will also get this error if your battery is low or you have no storage left. the folder directly under the "nandroid" folder it is your serial number. if you're having issues, just go to the "other" menu and select "send recovery.log to SD card." then go in and search the recovery.log file on your sdcard for "serialno=" right after that there will be a 12 character string of capital letters and numbers directly followed by lower case letters that are useless for this purpose. Create a folder with the same name as that string (capital letters and numbers only, no lower case) and place your previously renamed backups into that folder and voila! you'll be able to restore them.
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The backups are all located in the nandroid folder on your sdcard. the first folder inside nandroid is your device's serial number or something, the ones inside that are the backups, named by date and time. im pretty sure you can renaame these folders with no harm done to nandroids restore abilities and deleting them does absolutely no harm
if you want to edit the internals, you need to unyaffs it
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thank you, it worked for me
I'm not sure this is the correct place to post this info or my question, but I believe it is at least relevant to the topic at hand. If not, I apologize profusely.
I have numerous backups created with CWM (v6.0.1.0) that are eating up an enormous amount of space on my Galaxy Nexus SD card. I've been flashing numerous ROMs and Kernels and I want to get rid of most, if not all of those backups and then create a fresh one from my current working/bootable ROM (JB 4.1.1), just so I have a good backup to roll back to if/when I hose up my phone.
For poking around on the the SD card, I'm using a Windows-based program called 'Android Commander' (Google it), which I find to be exceptionally handy. It is very much like Total Commander, which I've been using for MANY years (since version 1.0 of the original Windows Commander) on Windows boxes, as well as a variant under numerous Linux distros.
At any rate, what I've discovered is as follows;
1. the contents of the /clockworkmod/ directory on the SD card contains three directories and a couple of files (in its root). The directories are;
/clockworkmod/backup/
/clockworkmod/blobs/
/clockworkmod/download/
2. the /clockworkmod/backup/ folder contains folders that are dated and time stamped (date and time the backups were created).
3. within each of the /clockworkmod/backup/date-time folders, there are six (6) files, the largest being the 'recovery.img' file. There is also a 'boot.img' file and four (4) other files that are quite small. Each 'recovery.img' file sizes are in gigabytes (yeah, I have a lot of crap on my phone), so it's pretty obvious that deleting these directories will give me a great deal more storage space, which is my main goal in life right now (recoup all that space).
4. my main point here, however, revolves around the /clockworkmod/blobs/ director. There are over 3000 sub directories within that directory, and I have no idea how many files are within those sub directories or how much space on the SD card they occupy, although my guess is around 8-10 gigabytes. Being an astute user of Google, here's what I found out about all this;
"Starting with version 6, duplication support has been built into clockworkmod recovery. The blobs directory folder contains a hashed directory structure that holds the duplicated files across all backups."
// This info was derived from a post on Android Enthusiasts (author unknown).
"Don't delete anything in your blobs folder. Those are your nandroid backups. Starting with CWM6, it makes incremental backups and your backup files point to the files in the blobs folder. To free up space, delete unwanted backups and the next time you run nandroid, it will delete the unneeded files in the blobs folder."
// This info was derived from a post by 'NotJustAPhone', a very senior member of the Android Central forum.
And for my next trick ... what I'm wondering is if it REALLY matters whether or not I blow away the contents of the 'blobs' directory, and I guess that's my question. What if I do delete everything in 'blobs'? Since I'm going to flash another ROM and Kernel anyway, does it matter? That directory obviously started out life as being empty, right? What will CWM do, or more importantly, NOT do, should I blow away the contents of the 'blobs' directory (assuming the file system will let me)? Won't CWM just create a new/fresh/relevant set of directories/files within 'blobs' the next time I do a backup? Has anyone actually tried doing that?
And just in case anyone is wondering, the only thing in the /clockworkmod/download/ directory is the clockwordmod img file.
Thanks in advance for any response this might elicit.
Old Fart
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I'm not sure this is the correct place to post this info or my question, but I believe it is at least relevant to the topic at hand. If not, I apologize profusely.
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Hi! You're in the HTC Droid Eris section of the forum, and the latest version of CWM for the Eris is much older (v2.x).
Without direct experience with the newer versions, all I can wonder is that doesn't CWM have any way built-in to delete old backups?
On the Eris, the easiest and most reliable way of using CWM is through installing the "ROM Manager" app, in which you can then manage your backups from the Android interface. In the future, you might want to consider trying that for your device as well as it may make it easier for you to manage your own backups.
I have no idea if under your configuration if installing ROM Manager now would help you delete your old backups, and I realize that even then you would probably only be able to delete them one by one, which is how it works for me in ROM Manager, and that being able to delete them en mass via Windows might be tempting. I keep four backups of my currently running ROM, and number them. I keep the very first one which is usually after I configure the ROM to my liking without really installing or restoring any apps.
Maybe you should ask wherever CWM-specific support is, but definitely at least in the section for your phone might attract better answers.
Good luck.
Hai!
So I just copied the Android Froyo files directly onto my SD card, and when I try to open them on my HTC HD2 I recieve an error that the file cant be opened and I should try to reinstall it.
Any help ?
Bai!
When you unzip the downloaded zipped file on your PC, you should end up with an android folder. It's that folder that you need in the root of your SD.
It's detailed very clearly how to install and run Android on every single build page that I've read. You should start where you downloaded it from.
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When you unzip the downloaded zipped file on your PC, you should end up with an android folder. It's that folder that you need in the root of your SD.
It's detailed very clearly how to install and run Android on every single build page that I've read. You should start where you downloaded it from.
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I did that, same error.
Anyonez ?
Please
We're not mind readers. What exactly did you do and what was the error?
ALright:
- I copied the folder to my SD Card on the HD2.
- I go to 'Start' -> File explorer -> And then I select the audio file thing and after that the file to start the Android itself.
When I do the last step, I get an error that says:
The file "CLRCAD/HARET" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's componets cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file.."
Search for sdkcerts and install that on your phone. That should fix your problem.
Sent from my iPhone 5 beta using the XDA App
Does it matter where I extract the file to ?
Do I have to put it on my SD card or on my HD2 program files ?
THANKS!
Tried both locations, getting an error while installing the .cab:
'Installation of SdkCerts.cab has failed.'
Hey guy sorry if I didn't post right, butvi have a problem I just put a new build of android on my phone its cell core version, everything works fine like emulators, internet, etc. the only thing that doesn't work is when I try to download androzip for I can urar files and unzipped 7z files. I really need this program cause my computer is down, and that way I can do everything own my phone until I get it back up and running. I just wanted to now am I the only one having this problem or is there a solution to this problem. sorry again if I posted wrong I'm a newbie to forums never really had to use them but this problem is beyond. me. also I tried other builds like Mattc 1.7 & 1.8 still get a installation unsuccessfull if info I relevant. thanks in advanced sorry again if post wrong and if its too long.
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Hey guy sorry if I didn't post right, butvi have a problem I just put a new build of android on my phone its cell core version, everything works fine like emulators, internet, etc. the only thing that doesn't work is when I try to download androzip for I can urar files and unzipped 7z files. I really need this program cause my computer is down, and that way I can do everything own my phone until I get it back up and running. I just wanted to now am I the only one having this problem or is there a solution to this problem. sorry again if I posted wrong I'm a newbie to forums never really had to use them but this problem is beyond. me. also I tried other builds like Mattc 1.7 & 1.8 still get a installation unsuccessfull if info I relevant. thanks in advanced sorry again if post wrong and if its too long.
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Make your own topic please.
So what point I am at:
- I copied the Android folder to my SD Card on the HD2.
- I go to 'Start' -> File explorer -> And then I select the audio file thing and after that the file to start the Android itself.
When I do the last step, I get an error that says:
The file "CLRCAD/HARET" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's componets cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file.."
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Then this person told me to download a .cab that would fix all the problems, and when I wanted to install it I got the error:
'Installation of SdkCerts.cab has failed.'
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And now I dont have a CLUE what to do! Lol
I am guessing you are running a stock windows mobile rom? You need to either run a custom rom or find "Advanced Configuration Tool" and install it so you can enable the rom to run all unsigned applications. Then you can run the android apps to boot it.
It is in the misc. section. More info: http://www.touchxperience.com/en/applications/advanced-configuration-tool.html
Uhm, where can I find a custom ROM :$?
I tried that Advanced Config, but when I try to run it on my phone it just gives me the error:
The file "AdvancedConfig" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's componets cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file.."
**** it, I will just peform a hard reset
Making a back-up of my contacts at this moment.
Peformed a Hard-Reset and the Android and all other files are working FKING GREAT!
Love you guys!
If you get that problem again, you should install an app called "bsb tweaks" (or a similar app) and set it to "allow unsigned"
this should allow you to install things that you couldnt before...........
Glad you got it sorted.
Thanks, John, for helping me out!
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2. When I did a firmware update, I did a backup of everything.
Then I did a firmware update, of course it failed, dont know why, I think it was because I was using a USB 1.1 socket on the computer, since the emergency restore worked when switching to a USB 2.0 socket on the back of the computer.
Now I have lost everything. When I try to restore, everything is greyed out. Had some important passwords saved into "Memo" in the phone and need to get them back.
How I do to restore the memo data?
The first attachment show the backup screen, and the second screen show that the memo (in swedish: "Anteckningar") is greyed out. Everything in Personal details (swedish: "Personuppgifter") is greyed out.
How I do to restore the memo data? Only option is to restore some photos.
Solved it. Did this, first I started recovery, since I had some heavy files, I could start a very long recovery.
Then I went into my document folder, where the SBU files are placed. Kies does a temporary extraction, so I could go into the file, and found a memo.bk file.
Copied it to desktop, renamed to .txt and found this:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:1.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DESCRIPTION;CHARSET=UTF-8;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:PASSWORD1=0APASSWORD2
DTSTART:20111010T110217Z
X-ALLDAY:UNSET
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR<#JIG#><#COUNT#>1
(of course I don't show the passwords here, thats why they are replaced Password1 and Password2)
Thanks!
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Solved it. Did this, first I started recovery, since I had some heavy files, I could start a very long recovery.
Then I went into my document folder, where the SBU files are placed. Kies does a temporary extraction, so I could go into the file, and found a memo.bk file.
Copied it to desktop, renamed to .txt and found this:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:1.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DESCRIPTION;CHARSET=UTF-8;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:PASSWORD1=0APASSWORD2
DTSTART:20111010T110217Z
X-ALLDAY:UNSET
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR<#JIG#><#COUNT#>1
(of course I don't show the passwords here, thats why they are replaced Password1 and Password2)
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Thanks a million buddy
Almost a year and a half later since you posted this, but you just saved me!
Had the same problem after updating from ICS to Jellybean, all my important data and password info in my memo files
When i tried to tick the box to restore, it was all greyed out to my disappointment.
So i started the restore process, when the error came up, navigated to the temp folder within Kies directory and BAM! memo file right there.
Thanks again!
Audwin
Does anyone know, is it possible to pull the file TB creates of an app and install the app without TB?
I checked on my OG Droid and the file TB creates ends in .apk.gz. Can I just remove the .gz and install the .apk?
Anyone try this?
My Prime doesn't have Wifi (because I broke it) and I'm trying to find a way to install my apps without a data connection (I don't have TB installed on the Prime since I also do not have root access).
Any help would be appreciated.
have you tried restoring your Wifi by reinstalling .21 update via the SD card....or installing the apps you want via SD card?
I have tried re-installing .21 from the SD card. It fails because my wpa_supplicant files are bad (the ones I changed accidentally).
I'm not sure how else to install the apps from the SD card except from what I have from TB. That's why I'm wondering if its possible to do. I'm not sure what TB does with the .gz ending of the file though.
The .gz file is gzip compressed...there are a number of applications that can uncompress and extract the .apk, then you can just load the .apk onto your prime
In windows I use 7-Zip to handle gzip files.
McLiarpants said:
Does anyone know, is it possible to pull the file TB creates of an app and install the app without TB?
I checked on my OG Droid and the file TB creates ends in .apk.gz. Can I just remove the .gz and install the .apk?
Anyone try this?
My Prime doesn't have Wifi (because I broke it) and I'm trying to find a way to install my apps without a data connection (I don't have TB installed on the Prime since I also do not have root access).
Any help would be appreciated.
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First of all...how did you break your WiFi??!!
Anywho. Just as someone else said, use 7-zip. It easily supports gzip. It's one of my favorite open source software releases available natively for Windows. No reason (imo) to use anything else.
I'm surprised TB is actually gzipping your apk files. apk format derived from jar. JAR files are compressed (and are actually derived from zip). gzip and zip both use the Deflate algorithm, so unless I'm mistaken on the apk incorporating data compression, using gzip seems like a stupid idea.
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I have tried re-installing .21 from the SD card. It fails because my wpa_supplicant files are bad (the ones I changed accidentally).
I'm not sure how else to install the apps from the SD card except from what I have from TB. That's why I'm wondering if its possible to do. I'm not sure what TB does with the .gz ending of the file though.
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iF YOU ARE JUST ROOTED, not unlocked, then load a clean.15 via sd card....that should clear the wpa files....THEN apply .21 via sd card.....there is a thread somewhere here that talks about that particular issue
Bob
Titanium Backup lets you select the format to use - no compression, LZO, gzip, or bzip2. It uses whichever you select. If you select no compression, then none of the files are compressed - not the .apk, not the data, or any of the rest of the backups. You may still get some compression of the .apk, and using gzip doesn't take enough extra time to notice. Gzip is a Linux compression format, commonly used for backups, as is bzip. That's why it's in Android - Android is just Linux modified for small touchscreens.
Thanks everyone! I'll be sure to unzip them and try it out.
Bob, unfortunately, I'm already on .21. You can't downgrade firmware versions without being unlocked. ICS wont even recognize the .15 file as being install-able.
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First of all...how did you break your WiFi??!!
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heh, well, i had used a method to restore ad-hoc connections that required a new wpa_supplicant2 file. The .21 firmware was supposed to allow ad-hoc, but I couldn't get it to work. So I attempted the method again. Unfortunately, I accidentally over-wrote the wpa_supplicant file. I didn't have a replacement file, so I thought that wiping and reflashing the .21 update would work. The update failed because those system files were modified.
So I have a prime with no wifi and no root, and thus no way to fix my wifi.
Someone here can grab you the files you need, transfer them to the sd card, put that in the prime, put them where they need to go and be done with it...
**** never mind, you do not have root now to put the files where the need to go. Crap, I'm stupid, sorry.
I fixed it!
I was able to pull a backup of OTA Voodoo Rootkeep from my TB .apk files. I installed, and it restored root for me! Not sure how that is possible...maybe I really was already rooted, but since I couldn't load any apps because of wifi being broke I couldn't check. Anyway, its all back to good!
Congrats!
Good idea on the method, perhaps it can be used in other situations. Sharing of a VodooOTA root Keeper backup allowing those on 2.1 to root themselves. Interesting idea.
TitaniumBackup does not backup my APK anymore. I think this happen after i update to LP 5.0.2. Is it not working properly on LP?
I even did a factory reset and it's still the same. Everytime I backup my apps, after complete, the icon is a tick. Used to be a smiley face.
Anyone have a fix for this?
EDIT: OK I found out it does backup everything include APK on the first run, subsequent run it only detect the app data and the icon change from a smiley to a tick.
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TitaniumBackup does not backup my APK anymore. I think this happen after i update to LP 5.0.2. Is it not working properly on LP?
I even did a factory reset and it's still the same. Everytime I backup my apps, after complete, the icon is a tick. Used to be a smiley face.
Anyone have a fix for this?
EDIT: OK I found out it does backup everything include APK on the first run, subsequent run it only detect the app data and the icon change from a smiley to a tick.
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The reason is in LP TB how adds .txt to its .properties file and TB itself cannot recognize..
Nobody had the same as issue as me? How can this be?
I have the same issue.. How did you fix this???
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The reason is in LP TB how adds .txt to its .properties file and TB itself cannot recognize..
Nobody had the same as issue as me? How can this be?
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I think I may have a related issue.
This is my problem description:
- phone: Samsung S4 I9505 upgraded to Lollipop 5.0.1, rooted with CF-Auto_Root
- using Titanium Backup version 7.1.2
1. set backup location to SD card using the DocumentProvider interface
2. after "Calculating scenarios" for different batch actions, for "Redo backups for modified data" shows 402 backups to be redone
3. run the scheduled action "Redo backups for modified data"
4. immediately afterwards, there are still 402 backups to be done
and
- "Calculating scenarios" never seems to finish. It's as if TB is having trouble scanning the backups
- the "properties.txt" files are created in the backup folder but they are empty files
I sent a report of a possible bug to Titanium Backup support.
I'm amazed this bug isn't more widely reported.
At a guess, the DocumentProvider API allows some sort of file type hint when creating a file and TB is optimistically setting this to text rather than whatever binary format is used for the archives, and for god knows what reason android is appending a .txt file extension.
I've spent the best part of a day banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why my backup couldn't be restored. Thank **** I found this thread, I was close to admitting defeat and starting from scratch.
Just to assist people in finding this, here's some of the stuff I googled for: "has app no", "no restore button", "restore question mark", "unknown"
I was lucky that my google-fu led me to this thread, and another one about Titanium backup adding .zip after .gz because I took a backup of my S5 yesterday, upgraded and hard reset, and then it couldn't find any backups. I knew they were there, but it turned out that both those bugs had struck me at the same time! So I copied the directory to the SD card, took the card out of the phone, put it into my pc and did a bit of old school "ren *.zip *." and "ren *.txt *." which put it all right again. Thanks for the thread!
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I was lucky that my google-fu led me to this thread, and another one about Titanium backup adding .zip after .gz because I took a backup of my S5 yesterday, upgraded and hard reset, and then it couldn't find any backups. I knew they were there, but it turned out that both those bugs had struck me at the same time! So I copied the directory to the SD card, took the card out of the phone, put it into my pc and did a bit of old school "ren *.zip *." and "ren *.txt *." which put it all right again. Thanks for the thread!
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renaming files work
This issue is not fixed even in 7.4.0.2 version of TB on LP. But this issue depends on ROM, because on CM12.1 it didn't reproduce.
Here is the fastest fix for Windows:
1.Open cmd
2.Switch drive to sdcard
3.Go to titanium backup folder (or wherever your backups are)
4.Execute two commands:
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
Example sequence of commands:
g:
cd G:\backup sept 2016\TitaniumBackup
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
saneksem said:
This issue is not fixed even in 7.4.0.2 version of TB on LP. But this issue depends on ROM, because on CM12.1 it didn't reproduce.
Here is the fastest fix for Windows:
1.Open cmd
2.Switch drive to sdcard
3.Go to titanium backup folder (or wherever your backups are)
4.Execute two commands:
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
Example sequence of commands:
g:
cd G:\backup sept 2016\TitaniumBackup
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
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Unfortunately, this didn't made the trick for me... When restoring any update (app+data) it takes so many time that it doesn't end... I don't know what the hell happened...