So, after some time I finally got my PC DB restored and the DB moved from my old Galaxy Note 8 to my Note 20 Ultra.

So many years ago my laptop took a dirt nap (non HD hardware failure) and at the time I wasn't going to replace it, I had DVDP on my cell phone and that was OK enough for what I was doing at the time. Sometime later pulling some stuff off the old HD I saw that my DB back up was needless to say way out of date VS what was current in DVDP itself. So again I put it off to the back burner.

At some point I replaced the Note 8 with the Note 20 and the Samsung switch app moved the apk over but for some reason the DB didn't make it. Dug into it a bit and never got a good answer to that issue so I used the Note 8 to keep something current.

A few months ago I started looking at building a media PC and wanting to get DVDP back up and running and getting it current with the DB/collection on my phone.

Found out that I could make a fresh install on the media box, then copied over the folders from the Dead PCs docs folders. Shockingly this went damn near flawless but did need to run the DB Repair utility.  Next was to attempt to push a DB to the note 20 and that also went about as flawless as one could expect.

So next was to update from the Note 8 to the PC, triple checking the settings and hit update, and it took a bit and it works mostly, there were some cover image issues but the collection seemed to have moved to the PC without major issues.

Did a DB backup, did a refresh profiles ( this fixed the cover image issues) backed up the DB again and all seems to be good.

DVDP is working on the Note 20 so far, even in Dex mode on the phone, there are some quirky display issues every now and then that cause you to have to restart the app. I am going to start digging into the PC install to see how my reports managed the move and some plug ins I use to use a lot ( Cast and Crew editor)

So there are ways to recover from being lazy with backups :/

What really started all this was me looking into ripping my collection to HD as I have had a few die from rot and I would kinda like to move the 6 995's to storage and clean up my piles of media not in players ( the BR collection is all on shelves). This is going to be a project that's for sure, and while I am super out of practice I would love to build a setup like I did for taking all my CD's to MP3's back in the day ( tower with 6 CD readers and some scripts to rip, name/tag and structured folder system.

Anyways, I just wanted to post a DVDP DB / Android success story.