Restoring Data

Restoring with the New Restore Function

If you have backed up your data using the built-in backup function, you can easily restore it via the "Manage Backups" menu item.

Manage Backups

Press the "..." button.

Select "Manage Backups."

A list of all existing cloud backups from all your devices using the same Apple ID will appear.

An explanation of the buttons can be found below the following image:

Existing Cloud Backups and Their Functions

Restore Backup. With this button, you start the backup restoration.

Permanently Delete Backup. With this button, the backup is deleted from the device and also from the cloud.

Delete Backup Locally. With this button, the local copy of the backup is deleted. It still remains in the cloud and can be downloaded again if needed.

Download Backup from the Cloud. With this button, a copy of the backup is downloaded so it can then be restored with button (1).

The buttons for restoring or permanently deleting are only active if the backup is downloaded (4).

All these buttons first display a message indicating what they do and ask if you really want to proceed when pressed.

So if you no longer remember what a button does, you can press it and read the confirmation question. You can still cancel if it is not what you want to do at the moment.

When you press the restore button (1), this window with additional information about the backup and what happens when restoring will first appear.

Confirmation Before Restoring a Backup

Here you can check the contents of the backup and decide whether to restore the backup or cancel.

Restoring a .sbkbkp Backup File

The backup files from SongBook+ have the extension .sbkbkp (SongBook-Backup).

If you click on such a file in the Files app or pass it to SongBook+ from another app with "Open in...", SongBook+ will start and display the window for restoring the backup (see above).

Here you can check the contents of the backup and decide whether to restore the backup or cancel.

(On a Mac, you can drag the backup file onto the app icon of SongBook+ to restore it.)

Other Recovery Options

If you did not perform a data backup with the backup function of SongBook+ but instead manually copied the files, you can also manually copy them back into SongBook+.

Exit SongBook+ before restoring the backup, as otherwise copying the database files back will have no effect (except when using the Wi-Fi sharing function)!

The backed-up files are copied back into SongBook+ in the same way as normal files are copied into SongBook+.

Therefore, please refer to the page Insert Files into SongBook+ to see how to copy files into SongBook+ and proceed with your backed-up files in the same way.

If one of the files SongBookMidi.sqlite-shm or SongBookMidi.sqlite-wal was not backed up because its size was 0, this missing file must also be deleted on the target iPad beforehand.

The "Inbox" folder cannot and does not need to be copied back! However, it does not contain any necessary data.