Transfer contacts from Sony XA2 to Jolla C2

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Has this been reported somewhere?

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Sailfish X cannot restore a Sailfish (non-X) backup (Design issue)

REPRODUCIBILITY (% or how often): Presumably 100% BUILD ID = Any/Sailfish X HARDWARE (Jolla1, Tablet, XA2,…): XA2 REGRESSION: (compared to previous public release: Yes, No, ?): No DESCRIPTION: Backup uses tar. Sailfish X ordinarily uses Busybox tar. It thereby cannot Restore a full tar backup done from ordinary Sailfish. It produces no error messages yet causes massive problems. STEPS TO REPRODUCE: Create a backup on normal Sailfish Restore same backup on Sailfish X that has no other ve…

New user experience could be improved (Sailfish X)

I’ve traced the problem (or rather read it on here). Sailfish has full tar. Sailfish X has Busybox tar, which can’t deal with the tar that ordinary Sailfish Backup creates. It’s fairly easily fixable by first installing NielsDK’s tar: https://openrepos.net/content/nieldk/tar-0 For whatever reason, this makes it possible to create accounts again.

Accounts - Bug in 3.4 when using Backup

@tomas3000 This should fix it for you. I’ve traced the problem (or rather read it on here). Sailfish has full tar. Sailfish X has Busybox tar, which can’t deal with the tar that ordinary Sailfish Backup creates. It’s fairly easily fixable by first installing NielsDK’s tar: https://openrepos.net/content/nieldk/tar-0 For whatever reason, this makes it possible to create accounts again.

Read carefully; some people seem to come to similarly erroneous conclusions.