Hi, As I mentioned below, it's best to sync more often (also for backup purposes!). Before adding new cards on your laptop, do a sync between the two devices. Then, after adding cards on your laptop, i.e. before you start using them on your phone, sync again.
Cheers, Peter On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 6:52 AM Magic Friday <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'll try to describe my issue. > Right now I got around 11,000 vocabularies in 5 different languages in my > Mnemosyne database. I go through all these vocabularies every day. Of > course the Mnemosyne's AI based system asks me only few of these > vocabularies every day based on my choice of 1, 2, 3, 4 resp. 5. > To keep it easy let's just say I'm asked about 80 words per language per > day. I always use my phone for this. As long as I don't enlarge my > database, there will be no issue. But as soon as I add new words (which can > be done on the laptop only) to one or several languages, of course I have > to do a syncing to get the new words to my phone. And that's where the > problems occur. I do the syncing from my phone which then is the local > version as I learned yesterday. The program then asks me if I want to keep > the local or the remote version. Of course I have to choose the remote > version (laptop) since I want to get the new words to my phone. But in that > case, not only the new words, but also the "word testing condition" (I hope > you understand what I mean, I'm not an English native) of the laptop is > transmitted to my phone, but that condition is actually wrong since I never > do my vocabulary on the laptop. That's why every time after syncing, I have > to do all 11,000 words on my phone again. > > How can I avoid that? How can I get the lately created words from the > laptop but still keep the word testing state from the phone? > > I hope I could explan my issue in an understandable manner. > > Thank you in advance for your help! > > > Peter Bienstman schrieb am Freitag, 29. April 2022 um 08:29:16 UTC+1: > >> Hi, >> >> It's best to always sync on all your devices before you start a reviewing >> session. >> >> If you want to get back to a backup on your phone, that's a lot more >> involved since Google imposed stronger limitations on sharing data between >> apps. Choose 'export data' on your phone, which will generate a zip file of >> everything. Transfer it to your pc, and put the files in the backup folder >> of the zipfile in the backup folder on your computer. Then, open the new >> backups as before. >> >> Peter >> >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 9:23 AM Magic Friday <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Thank you for your answer! >>> So there will always be a conflict when syncing as I always edit the >>> cards on my laptop and review them on the phone (editing on the phone is >>> not possible anyways). >>> I do not manage to restore today's prior to backup version. When I click >>> on the file (showing today's date with time), nothing happens, no error, >>> just nothing. I guess this is because it just restores the state which was >>> on the laptop before backup, but this state is identical to how it is now. >>> But I need the state of the phone before backup. Can I also carry out a >>> backup on the phone? >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/1d36173e-08e6-4475-9f38-2ab2b69920ffn%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/1d36173e-08e6-4475-9f38-2ab2b69920ffn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/582f1ec8-6f83-4097-9de4-007c1d72a134n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/582f1ec8-6f83-4097-9de4-007c1d72a134n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/CAMdxoPGhnxjvniu4iUnwTcWcbdEFTno5EXqnVP-DTmMvNsb_eA%40mail.gmail.com.
