I run PK on my phone, which recently got hit by the Android 14 media storage bug (if you’ve not heard of this you probably don’t need to panic, it only affected people with multiple accounts on the phone).

As a result, I couldn’t save any new media or access any old saved media files either. Which meant, among other things, no exporting PK progress.

And the last time I exported and backed up progress on my big full coverage project? I’m sorry to say, dear reader, it was at least 10,000 stitches ago (probably quite a lot more but I was too scared to check).

Now, my story ended well. I had the milder form of the bug, and Google pushed out an emergency update that seems to have fixed it for me. But lots of people weren’t so lucky and are left with a factory reset as their only option. If that was me, I’d have lost so much PK stuff!

So yeah, PSA. Take regular backups. Make sure they’re somewhere safe. It’s worth the peace of mind!

  • Cameron@mastodon.world
    41·
    1 year ago

    @thegiddystitcher I have trust issues with anything that involves putting large amount of data into a phone app, a lot of them don’t properly support backups/export.

    I dutifully catalogued all of my acrylic paints at one point, but then needed to reset my phone and was annoyed that there was no way to export or backup the data (Even the full phone app backup lacked it). So I went back to a Cloud based spreadsheet.

    • Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher@sunny.garden
      3·
      1 year ago

      @bitflipped Definitely with you there! In this case the app in question actually has a pretty good export / backup process but I just got complacent and didn’t use it enough. Worked out ok in the end but it very nearly didn’t and my lesson is learned! 😬

        • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOPM
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m the same way with cross stitch supplies. There are plenty mobile apps, but I so do not want to lose a meticulously categorised list of hundreds of colours of embroidery floss. So spreadsheet it is!