Thanks again, Katie.
I explained my apparent silliness in a previous posting, but will repeat it again here. All the online Kindle/Fire help provided by Amazon refers to the 'Manual Backup' option on Fire, but this option now appears to have gone missing in the new version 5 OS.
Yes, I do know about the oval and the dot. When you 'throw the switch' with the new version 5 OS, you immediately receive the warning message that all your backups will be deleted. This warning would certainly give pause to the ordinary user . . .
However, being a computer pioneer since the 1970s, I boldly threw the switch anyway, fully expecting a 'Manual Backup' option to appear once the 'Automatic Backup' was turned off. But it didn't appear.
I would have been more comfortable, before doing a full reset of my Fire HD 10, to have performed a conscious and manual backup. Hence my question.
All my books are backed up twice. It's my Fire settings and apps that I would hope to have 'automatically' backed up. It appears that I simply have to trust that 'once a day' (when?) Amazon is doing this for me behind the scenes. Skeptic that I am, I would have liked to do my own manual backup of settings and apps and be sure of it.
This is why I keep asking these questions.
Thanks again for the feedback.
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Originally Posted by Katie1
IF you want to do it ....
SETTINGS > DEVICE OPTIONS > BACKUP & RESTORE > Turn on Backup & Restore by tapping the oval with the dot. When its Orange its ON. Gray its OFF.
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