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geneven	2011-03-08 , 20:56
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Originally Posted by ndi

Some programs add things to settings files, to have those installed one would have to restore those files, and, in process, also restore other things. Say, for CSSU to be restored onto a phone, transitions.ini must be packed in, and, thus, the parallax setting would carry over in the pack. I'd have to manually adjust the file.

You said "For example, you could take a newly flashed N900 that has no personal info on it and add the best programs and back it up and post the backup files."

I gather that restoring that would restore some if not all the settings (all if BM stays as it is), so I'd have to manually restore (some) settings. OTOH, should I mass-install everything it might be a little longer but it's be automated.

I see, good point. I guess if you have a lot of such settings, in the example scenerio I I gave you might have a better method.

My example was just to establish beyond a doubt that personal information would not necessarily be compromised -- if there's no personal information on the phone, it won't be passed on, guaranteed.

The person I'm imagining who would benefit from the restore backup method of installing would be someone who didn't have many programs installed on the N900 (and thus wouldn't have many personal settings to worry about). Instead of starting with a bare phone and few programs installed, the new user would just install BackupMenu and then the provided backup files -- voila, a fully stocked phone without the long process of discovering programs, etc.

I gather this method could also be used to give programs you have to pay for to a new user at no cost, but there are so few pay programs for the N900 and they are so inexpensive that doing so would be both evil and not very useful.

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