Best ways to backup OpenTracks

[edern-appere]

Hi everyone !

Recently I had to make a fresh new install of my phone. Before that, I exported all my tracks in GPX files (thanks to the auto-export feature !). Once I imported them back into my freshly installed OpenTracks, I noticed that all the tracks where tagged as cycling although, some where hiking, some ski and most of them cycling. I'm trying to figure out which tracks belongs to which activity. I have a question : is this a bug or is this due to the GPX file format I used for export ? I'm not familiar with KMZ file, but if this could resolve this issue, I can use that.

As a side note, I noticed that there is no feature to export OpenTracks settings. Setting-up OpenTracks is quite quick and easy but it would be great to have an export feature, especially for the customized recording dashboards. Is this already implemented and I have missed it ?

Thanks for your help !

[dennisguse]

Welcome back to the party 🥳

1. Backups
   Use either KMZ or KML, because GPX cannot contain all the information.
   Regarding the actual activity: it is exported as a localized string (in your language) if you import on another device with a different language, everything will be imported as unknown.
   There is no documentation for this; definitely a point to improve.
   It is only in code.
   PS/ I have been writing this just from my memory.
   Relevant code is in GPXTrackImporter and KMLTrackImporter.
2. We cannot export the settings (at the moment).
   So, you didn't miss anything.
   Also a nice feature...

[edern-appere]

Thanks for the answers !
I'll switch to KML files then, because my Nextcloud app to read and display files seems to allow only GPX or KML files.

[edern-appere]

By the way, you said "Welcome back to the party". Even though I did not post many issues or discussions here, I never stopped using OpenTracks. It's my one and only essential app when I go biking ! And from what I read here, I'm not the only one ! OpenTracks has become the best bicycle computer replacement app. You can be proud of your work @dennisguse !

[dennisguse]

Doing it for the fun 😎

[Zugschlus]

Hi, how would I restore a file written by Opentracks in Opentracks? I have written all my tracks to a single file by choosing "Export all (one file for all tracks)" and moved that file to the new phone by using nearby share. It now sits in the Download folder. Opentracks "import all" says it cannot use this folder. I have copied the file to a new "opentracks" folder, pointed Opentracks to that, folder and clicked "use this folder". Opewntracks says "importing from opentracks, completed with one error", and show errors says "Parser error, cannot import track without any locations". How do I proceed?
Exporting one file per track is a nuisance since the files are transferred (and placed in the download folder) one by one, and I have nearly a thousand tracks.

[dennisguse]

Are any tracks successfully imported?
Might be that only one track has no data.
Or is nothing imported at all?

[dennisguse]

Which file format?