I've got a new phone, how do I move my secrets?
Thu, 04/07/2011 - 08:49 | 
gnugu SecretBox does not save your secrets on the internet. This means that when you get a new phone, your secrets stay with the old phone.
Secrets are saved in "secretbox" directory on your sdcard (media card).
To move secrets to new phone, simply back them up from your old phone to PC (see the FAQ regarding backup) and then copy them from PC to your sdcard on your new phone.
Alternatively, you may want to simply take the sdcard out from the old phone and put it in the new phone and be done with it.
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I took my old SD card out of my Droid X and placed it in my new Droid Bionic. When I launch your app, it makes me create a password but no secrets are there. If I take the card out of my Droid Bionic, place it back into my Droid X, the secrets are there. Please advise.
On my Droid X, the secret file is stored in the sdcard-ext folder and on my Droid Bionic, for some reason, it's in the SDcard folder. You need to install motorola drivers to access the internal phone storage. Once there, copy the file to the phones internal storage location.
I guess this is because the Bionic mounts the internal storage first as SDCard and then mounts the actual external SDCard as SDCard-Ext.
Here is where data is stored:
Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
Here is what is should do http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment.html#getExternalStorageDirectory()
And here is why it happened to you:
"Traditionally this is an SD card, but it may also be implemented as built-in storage in a device that is distinct from the protected internal storage and can be mounted as a filesystem on a computer."
Never thought of it. Good catch though and thank you for sharing with others.
It should work. Make sure your sdcard is mounted and available for the phone.
Get some file browser from the market and check if you have /sdcard/secretbox file structure.
I'm transferring secret box from my old htc evo 4g to my new Samsung Galaxy 3 and the files are not showing on my SG3,
I removed my sd-card from my Evo and place it in SG3 and files are not showing but when I place it back (sd-card) into evo files are showing.
Need specific instructions to resolve this issue.
Please help!
Plug your SG3 to a PC. You will see (likely two) new removable drives connected to your PC. Copy the sdcard folder from the one where it is to the other one and give it a try.
See my response to the "Bionic" above.