Love Love LOVE the new data sharing!
BUT. lol
Would it be possible to add an option to import the entire database - overwriting all data on the device?
When the Mrs and I are both at a game, we both score the game so she can practice for when I can not be there. So she has games in her device that don't matter and the ability for us to overwrite her device with my database would be nice.
Great job on 2.6!
Don
Data Sharing - Did I miss it?
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Re: Data Sharing - Did I miss it?
Hi Don -
We intentionally did not include this as it seemed like a bit of a scary option that users could accidentally use and lose their data. Right now, we can do this for users (as we have done in previous versions), and we always check to make sure there is not already data on the second device that user's don't mind losing.
With the data sharing, the data always just gets added, so there is never a concern you could accidentally lose data.
For your situation, your wife could always delete the game from her device, and import it from your device.
That being said, we may add the ability to transfer entire databases in the future as well --- it will just be something that has plenty of warnings and would be a user at your own risk type of thing - we would not be able to recover data if you accidentally decided to overwrite in the wrong direction.
Thank you.
We intentionally did not include this as it seemed like a bit of a scary option that users could accidentally use and lose their data. Right now, we can do this for users (as we have done in previous versions), and we always check to make sure there is not already data on the second device that user's don't mind losing.
With the data sharing, the data always just gets added, so there is never a concern you could accidentally lose data.
For your situation, your wife could always delete the game from her device, and import it from your device.
That being said, we may add the ability to transfer entire databases in the future as well --- it will just be something that has plenty of warnings and would be a user at your own risk type of thing - we would not be able to recover data if you accidentally decided to overwrite in the wrong direction.
Thank you.