Category: Exporting Files

Backup! Various methods

Please do backups regularly. Here are various ways to backup from easiest to hardest.

First, make sure you have an iCloud backup. If you have to pay 99 cents/month to upgrade iCloud, please do it.

iCloud backups

Then proceed with a manual backup. There are several ways to do this.

If you have a relatively recent iPad (gen 6 and later with sufficient space) , it is possible to Airdrop all of your files to a computer. Go to Settings->Utilities and choose Airdrop Documents to Computer. This will use Airdrop to send the entire Documents folder to a computer. This will be a complete backup of unrealBook files.

Use Airdrop Documents to Computer to make a complete backup of your files if you have an iPad Pro

You can use Catalina/Monterey/Ventura and later MacOS to create a backup. SEE THIS PAGE.

You can use iExplorer. I tried this in demo mode and was able to download all of the contents of unrealBook. The app is reasonably priced at $40.

Check out iExplorer.

Another way is to use iFunBox. (iFunbox is not signed. So use at your own risk. To open, right-click on app and choose Open). It may display an error, but you can still double-click on the unrealBook folder in App File Sharing and access your files. I just tested this with Sonoma 12/27/23. It does copy.

Here is how to backup and copy to another iPad with iFunBox.

Here is how to backup and copy to another iPad with iMazing which is an amazing paid program. (Note: iMazing has a new licensing which charges per device). I don’t like this licensing but the program still works great.

(old and outdated) Before Catalina, the fastest and most reliable way is to use iTunes.https://diystompboxes.com/unrealbook/manual/how-to-make-a-manual-backup-of-unrealbook-files-with-itunes-12/
This method will backup only the unrealBook music files and works well.


The following methods require you to restore the entire iPad if you need to recover the backup:
Make a complete backup of your iPad via iTunes.https://diystompboxes.com/unrealbook/manual/how-to-make-a-manual-backup-of-unrealbook-files-with-itunes-12/

iCloud backup is another method but it requires you to recover the entire iPad.
How to use iCloud backup:
https://diystompboxes.com/unrealbook/manual/how-to-backup-to-icloud/

Save the entire set list as a single PDF


Save the entire set list as a single PDF

You can save your set list as a single PDF with the annotations intact. Note that this function is dependent on the amount of RAM that your iPad has. This function may fail with super large set lists.

Load a set list.

 

Load a set list using the set list popup in the center of the set list toolbar.

Use the + button in the set list toolbar to save the current set list to a single PDF file.

 

Choose Set List to PDF.

Name the PDF file that will be created from the set list

 

Note that any bookmarks or indexes that do not have a number of pages defined will be saved as a single page.

Export Pages


Export Pages

 

Export Pages will export a range of pages via email or as a file on your iPad.

Export Pages allows you to create a new PDF based on a subset of pages from the currently shown PDF. Navigate to the page you want to start from, set the number of pages you want to export, name and press Export as… Export as email will email the exported PDF pages. Export as pdf will create a new file in your iPad that you can use like any other file. Pressing the “to last page” button will automatically insert the last page number in the number of pages field. Export pages may also produce files that turn faster than larger PDF files if the resolution of the PDF is greater than 150DPI.

Export and add to Set List will create a new document and insert it into the current set list. This feature is shown when a set list is active.

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