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Originally Posted by Bayaz
Thank you, my friend! I’ll report back on how it works
I decided to do a full iCloud backup to an external hard drive before setting up the new phone. It’s been a little bit of a hassle setting up symbolic links because my Win computer doesn’t have enough space to store the backup in the default location.
On another note, I also am using rclone to back up my OneDrive account to the same external drive and then setting up a differential copy to run periodically. If anyone is interested in how to do that I can put the instructions here or private message you.
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I have some great news to report. I was able to successfully load Marvin onto my new iPhone using the info in the great video! The steps were a little different using Windows but it worked great.
The only thing I'm having trouble with is that when I try to restore the backup on my new iPhone17, it says:
"Oops Marvin is expecting a file called 'marvin.m3backup' in your documents directory. It doesn't seem you have taken a backup yet"
I haven't made a backup from my old iPhone 12 in a few months, so I did that, and I get the standard message:
"Confirm: Your backup will be saved in your documents directory and may take up to 1.7 GB. Continue?"
I tell it to continue and I get a strange message I haven't seen before:
"Changes detected. Marvin detected changes in your documents directory. When your books finish copying, press 'Import now' to import them"
I click 'Import Now' and a popup says "Ready 1 file(s) were imported"
I clicked that and then told it to "Keep it in my documents directory" (the 1.5 GB file), but wasn't sure how to "get that file from the iPhone 12", copy it to the new iPhone 17, and import it.
Fortunately, I figured out that iMazing does that too. You go to your new device, go to Apps / Documents under Marvin and just drag the backup file into that folder and then do a restore in the app.
I got the banner on the bottom, which I removed by doing "restore tips"
So turtle... I'd like to say a huge thank you. I'm an obsessive reader and I even have all my User Lists, etc. It looks exactly like it did on my old phone.
I've mentioned 'Marvin' to some people over the years, and it's amazing how many people don't read at all.