Aardy Manager (Mac)

Backups, updating and going back

Back up and restore your settings, update Aardy safely, and roll back after an update.

Settings, then Backup & restore keeps copies of everything Aardy knows: packs, paired TVs, metadata edits, playlists, weather cities and the admin login.

Automatic backups

Aardy saves one before every update that changes its database, and one before every restore, so a restore can be undone. It keeps the last five of each.

Back up now

Back up now saves a copy on the Mac. Tick Include photos & sounds to copy the imported photo files too. That makes a much bigger file, and you only need it to move to a new Mac.

Backups kept on the Mac live in the Backups folder inside the library folder. They are not encrypted.

Download a backup

Download… saves a backup somewhere else, such as a USB drive or a cloud folder. You choose a password of at least 10 characters and the file is encrypted with it.

Restore

Restore from file… takes a downloaded .aardybackup file. Aardy shows when it was made, asks for its password, then offers to restore it. A restore happens the next time Aardy launches. Restart now does that for you when Aardy runs as a login item. Otherwise quit Aardy from the menu-bar icon and open it again.

Updating Aardy

1. Quit Aardy from its menu-bar icon.
2. Replace Aardy.app in Applications with the new version.
3. Open it again.

Your library, packs, pairings and settings are kept, because they live in the library folder, not in the app.

Going back after an update

1. Open Settings, then Backup & restore. The newest automatic backup is labeled Before upgrade to v….
2. Choose Restore…, then Restore at next launch.
3. To go back to the older Aardy.app as well, quit Aardy, put the old app back in Applications, and open it. The restore is applied as it starts.

An older Aardy refuses a backup made by a newer one. Restore the automatic Before upgrade backup, which the older version made.