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Saving your layout, and putting it back

One file holds your layout. It is worth making before you change anything you would miss.

Save one

1. Open Folio Settings › General › Backup.
2. Save Backup… writes it to Download/Folio and lets you name it, orSave Backup to Files… lets you choose where it goes.

Putting it somewhere that syncs off the phone is the version that survives losing the phone.

Put it back

1. Folio Settings › General › Backup › Restore from Backup…
2. Pick the file.
3. Work through any widget that says Reconnect, approving Android's prompt each time. UseReplace for a widget whose app is no longer installed.

What is in it, and what is not

The page itself says what it saves: your Home layout, your folders, your widgets, your layout settings, and the packages you took from the Market. Restoring shows you a review before it changes anything.

Photos are not in it, so a wallpaper you chose from your own pictures needs setting again after a restore.

Widget connections cannot be carried over either. Android ties a widget to the app that made it, and that tie is granted to the install rather than the backup, which is why Reconnect exists.

When to make one

• Before installing a different build, which means uninstalling first and losing everything.
• Before a big rearrange, so the old arrangement is one tap away.
• Before trying a theme or a set of tweaks you are not sure about.

Written for Folio 0.6.8. If something here is wrong, out of date or missing,open an issue and it gets fixed.