Table of contents

• Laptop
• Mobile
  • Transfer files
  • Mobile photo importing workflow

To keep the phone rolling smoothly, from time to time a classic data backup and factory reset are necessary, but it’s important not to forget what to save before hitting the red button. These are my checklist and importing workflow.

Laptop

• Firefox
  • export extensions configuration and settings
  • about:config settings check
• Espanso config

Mobile

• Export apps settings
  • OSMAnd+ favorites and settings
• WiFi passwords
• WhatsApp
  • important messages
  • archived messages
  • global backup
• images
• audios
  • recordings
  • important WhatsApp audios
• Contacts (if not synced)
• Two Factor Authentication App

Transfer files

I use ADB to transfer any file or folder from my Android device to my Mac, and this is how I do it.

Firstly, connect the phone to the computer.

Open the terminal and move to the platform-tools folder (I keep in Documents)

cd Documents/platform-tools

Then, check if the two devices are connected correctly by running

./adb devices

navigate in the phone’s directories

./adb shell

ls -al

once the path of the directories which contain the content that has to be copied on the computer has been noted, execute:

./adb pull /path/in/phone /destination/path/on/computer

And it’s done. This is how simple, neat, fast, and powerful this process is.

Mobile photo importing workflow

My Photo importing workflow