Chaotic Migration from S10+ to S21 Ultra

[michail71]

Okay, I love OneDrive!!

I was able to write a small console application that took the metadata from my old OneDrive backups, wrote that into the new backups, and then delete the original old backup.

The part that shocked me the most was you can write the desired changes to the local placeholder files. The whole operation updated and deleted thousands of files in less than one minute. It was so fast I thought something went wrong. OneDrive just synced back the metadata without needing the files locally.

I know the date issue has been a problem on corporate migrations, so they must have built that in to they sync process.

If anyone else finds themselves in the same situation, I'd be happy to help.

 

[kvan01]

trying to delete comment as I didn't know how to reply to someone and have reposted replying to somone.

 

[kvan01]

Okay, I love OneDrive!!

I was able to write a small console application that took the metadata from my old OneDrive backups, wrote that into the new backups, and then delete the original old backup.

The part that shocked me the most was you can write the desired changes to the local placeholder files. The whole operation updated and deleted thousands of files in less than one minute. It was so fast I thought something went wrong. OneDrive just synced back the metadata without needing the files locally.

I know the date issue has been a problem on corporate migrations, so they must have built that in to they sync process.

If anyone else finds themselves in the same situation, I'd be happy to help.

Hello,
Hope it is ok to ask here since you mentioned you love OneDrive. I just completed a restore onto a new S22 Ultra and my Onedrive is a mess, I've never had this bad of a restore when upgrading a device before and I've had to do it before without the old device and never any issues.

Questions:
- Why have so many photos lost their date/time information in OneDrive? And can it be fixed?
- What is the best way to do a restore when using Samsung Account, Onedrive and Google as I've tried a couple of times now including Factory Reseting a few times and it just isn't right. I imagine the device is picky enough to prefer one way over another, would I be right?
- And any app that uses Samsung Gallery cannot access any photos/videos/albums from the restore, what step am I missing?

I've written a bit longer query on a new thread if you need a little more detail, Thanks!

 

[mustang7757]

Hello,
Hope it is ok to ask here since you mentioned you love OneDrive. I just completed a restore onto a new S22 Ultra and my Onedrive is a mess, I've never had this bad of a restore when upgrading a device before and I've had to do it before without the old device and never any issues.

Questions:
- Why have so many photos lost their date/time information in OneDrive? And can it be fixed?
- What is the best way to do a restore when using Samsung Account, Onedrive and Google as I've tried a couple of times now including Factory Reseting a few times and it just isn't right. I imagine the device is picky enough to prefer one way over another, would I be right?
- And any app that uses Samsung Gallery cannot access any photos/videos/albums from the restore, what step am I missing?

I've written a bit longer query on a new thread if you need a little more detail, Thanks!

Try using Smart switch on PC can back up and restore including pictures

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[kikbxr1969]

Try using Smart switch on PC can back up and restore including pictures

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Is there a way to do a PC backup automatically over wifi like there was with cloud? I already back up my photos automatically using SyncMe. But, I would like to keep backups for things like Home Screen layout, apps, etc up to date and I REALLY don't want to use OneDrive for that (not even sure that One Drive does that).