Backup support for custom cover

[FennekFox]

Describe your suggested feature

In order to be future-proof for more common mass migrations between apps and forks, I would very appreciate a feature which would allow the backup and restoration of custom cover arts. This is currently one of the only things which gets lost in migration, while being used to a moderate degree.

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[dan-malprod]

For me, the cover.jpg files were kept (at least for local manga) but they didnt render until I opened each library entry.

[peepincreepin]

Agree. I have had to reinstall & restore backup while debugging/troubleshooting many times, and it is a pain to reset custom covers each and every time. This feature would be massively appreciated. 🙌

[mizu-048]

+1

[mizu-048]

while looking through the data files in my android today, i found this folder

Android/data/app.mihon/files/covers/custom/

which does actually contain my custom covers, i am not sure but copying this folder or the entire covers folder(if you don't want to waste data downloading them again), might solve the issue for custom covers being lost?

[peepincreepin]

while looking through the data files in my android today, i found this folder

Android/data/app.mihon/files/covers/custom/

which does actually contain my custom covers, i am not sure but copying this folder or the entire covers folder(if you don't want to waste data downloading them again), might solve the issue for custom covers being lost?

i can't even access that folder without a computer; i don't think it would work for many users

[mizu-048]

you can easily access that folder with the following methods:

• a file manager that uses SAF(Storage Access Framework) like (Fossify file manager) (fork of SMT file manager)
• android's own file manager DocumentsUI(DUI) which doesn't have a shortcut so you will have to use a third party app to launch it, like Activity Launcher (launch "com.android.documentsui.files.FilesActivity" you can find it by searching any one the words in it) (there are many more alternatives meant only to acess DUI) or you can use a launcher like Material File Manager which instead of using SAF just opens the folder in DUI

i hope that clears it?

[ClearSights]

while looking through the data files in my android today, i found this folder

Android/data/app.mihon/files/covers/custom/

which does actually contain my custom covers, i am not sure but copying this folder or the entire covers folder(if you don't want to waste data downloading them again), might solve the issue for custom covers being lost?

I tried this approach. Some custom cover files are correctly recognized, but some are mapped to the wrong manga entry.

[mizu-048]

I tried this approach. Some custom cover files are correctly recognized, but some are mapped to the wrong manga entry.

i guess then the only option is to custom set covers from the copied folder manually