• Re: How do you back up all your apks (including split apks) to Windows?

    From Maria Sophia@mariasophia@comprehension.com to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.mobile.android,alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Sat Feb 7 16:32:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-10

    Maria Sophia wrote:
    Since I put together systems for a living in Silicon Valley for decades, I am putting together a system here which backs up all user apps to Windows (without the Internet, without accounts, without root, without cost).

    All ~600 of my user-installed APKs fit into a dozen homescreen folders.
    <https://i.postimg.cc/Gmbyp807/windows-android.jpg>

    Just like our kitchen dozen drawers and garage toolboxes are ordered, but differently, I maintain ordering on both Android & Windows similarly.

    You maintain Windows like your toolbox, by Phillips & Flathead screwdrivers
    and adjustable pliers while Android is forced to be simpler like forks and spoons, since it's a much flatter hierarchy on Android than on Windows.

    In each case though, you only get about a dozen top-level hierarchies
    before it becomes unwieldy, where most people seem to store the Android
    launch icons in their most-used order first, and least-used order last.

    Windows' filesystem doesn't easily allow me anything but alphabetical
    though, so the ~600 user-installed apps need to fit into a dozen folders.
    <https://i.postimg.cc/xTDmWpt4/organization-phone-pc.jpg>
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    I tend to feel sorry for people who aren't organized because they have to resort to using a search just to find files that they put on their devices.
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