Where to find the backup in Google Drive?

[devonzuegel]

I've been trying to find the backup file in Drive so that I can do some other fun stuff with the data, but haven't been able to figure out what the file is called. According to the code (below) I expected it to be something like voice_outliner-TIMESTAMP.zip but didn't see a file with that name anywhere in my Drive.

voiceliner/lib/repositories/drive_backup.dart

Lines 104 to 113 in bbc7832

	final docsDir = await getApplicationDocumentsDirectory();
	final tmpDir = await getTemporaryDirectory();
	final tmpZip = IO.File(
	"${tmpDir.path}/voice_outliner-${DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch}.zip");
	try {
	await ZipFile.createFromDirectory(
	sourceDir: docsDir,
	zipFile: tmpZip,
	recurseSubDirs: true,
	);

From playing around with it, my backup does seem to be working, so it seems to be creating a file somewhere. I just can't figure out what the file is called!

P.S. Thank you for making VoiceLiner! I've been wanting exactly this tool for ages.

[maxkrieger]

Hi Devon, glad you like the app! Was super uncanny to see that thread of yours about similar needs when I launched it.

Unfortunately, afaik, the gdrive “app specific data” scope doesn’t allow the files to be visible for end users (https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v2/api-specific-auth?hl=en#identify_whether_to_use_a_restricted_scope). I can only upload to the user’s visible file system if I get full access to their drive, which isn’t ideal.

Fortunately, all your data is easily accessible in the iOS file system, including/especially the sqlite database. You can zip everything straight from the Files app, and I think iCloud is backing up a bit. There might be a way to do this with shortcuts too?

I might add Dropbox support eventually as a stopgap for #8. They do provide app restricted user navigable scope.

[devonzuegel]

Ahhh that makes sense. Having the sqlite db in iCloud might actually be better for my purposes, so I'm actually glad to hear that!

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I might add Dropbox support eventually as a stopgap for #8. They do provide app restricted user navigable scope.

This would be amazing!

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Two ideas that you can of course take or leave:

• It might be helpful to have documentation about that in the app somewhere, so that other people can figure out where the data is stored.
• I'd also love to have it in plaintext rather than a zip/sqlite db, because then I can auto-sync it to my Logseq directory.

[benjaffe]

I also want to sync it to Logseq. A different solution would be auto-export to markdown, since I'd prefer to not have to export manually each time.

This is an amazing app, and so glad I discovered it. <3

[maxkrieger]

I made an issue #65 but I probably won't get to it anytime soon - lmk if you wanna add the feature & I can give codebase pointers