Editing Introduction to a Self Managed Life: a 13 hour & 28 minute presentation by FUTO software (section)

==== 5.2 Avoid becoming a data recovery customer ====

'''Delete the Camera Folder''': Not from the device, just from the sync list, within syncthing. Tap on the camera folder &amp; hit the trash bin in the upper right.

There’s a good reason for that. You might think, “Why? I WANT to sync and back up my photos and videos!!” Here’s the thing: sometimes, camera apps switch folders without you knowing. I’ve seen cases where photos were saved in a different folder INSIDE the DCIM folder, and the gallery app only showed one specific folder.

I’m not a predatory technician that ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVZTBhVV5tI&pp=ygUVZHJpdmVzYXZlcnMgIHJvc3NtYW5u bills people $3000 for a bad iPhone screen or charge port]''. But they are out there, and someone was close to paying $500 to a different scam artist data recovery company because their gallery app wasn’t checking a 2nd folder inside of the DCIM folder where another program was saving photos to.

We are not going to back up the camera folder ''within'' the DCIM folder. We are going to back up the '''entire DCIM folder.'''

For those who don’t know, on 99% of Android devices, '''DCIM''' is a folder in the root directory of the ''“visible”'' filesystem within which the subfolders storing your recorded videos &amp; pictures reside.

Next, I am going to do something different. I wanted to show you what happens when you use local discovery/dynamic rather than inserting your actual server IP address into the server field. This meant including screenshots from a LATER step, after I had already added folders that we are going to sync, to show you how syncthing fails with local discovery. '''It’s important to me that you understand how this fails with images for yourself, so you don’t create a setup that makes you a data recovery customer.'''

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'''Here is what will happen if you set this up with dynamic, disconnect, and then reconnect. Note how it shows up as “idle” for syncing and “disconnected” on the android phone; it is transferring NOTHING, even though the desktop syncthing server GUI shows that we are out of sync.'''

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