My Apple Favorites Disappeared after I Updated

Manually Copying Favorites and Notes

In some cases iBird's favorites and notes may not get migrated when you update your Bird app. There is however a way to get them back manually, provided you have not deleted the Dropbox folder they were stored in before the update.

This note applies to people using the iOS version of iBird which previously used Dropbox for storing favorites and notes. We had to switch to iCloud because Dropbox changed the way there system worked so we no longer could use it. Here are the steps:

On your computer open your Dropbox account, then go into the Finder and find the folders created by iBird Apps. They are in a folder in the Dropbox folder called Apps. Inside of Apps you will find the name of your iBird app, such as iBird Pro North America. 

There will be 3 folders in your app name folder:

• Lists
• My Photos
• Notes

Her is the official path name: /Dropbox/Apps/Name of your iBird app/Lists|Notes|My Photos.

The name of your iBird app can be:

iBird Pro North Amierca
iBird Ultimate North America
iBird Plus North America
iBird Yard Plus North America
iBird United Kingdom
iBird Hawaii and Palau
iBird Lite

The item after the name can be either Lists, Notes or My Photos.

So for example if you are using iBird Pro North America and want to copy your Lists from Dropbox to iCloud the path for Dropbox will be:

/Dropbox/Apps/iBird Pro North America/Lists.

There will be 3 folders in the iBird Pro North America Dropbox folder:

• Lists
• My Photos
• Notes

Next find the corresponding folders in your iCloud folder. The path for iCloud will be:

/iCloud Drive/iBirdPRO/favoriteslists. 

There will be 3 folders in the iiBird Pro North America iCloud folder:

• favoritelists
• myphotos
• notes

Once you have the two folders open on your Mac, copy the files from Lists in Dropbox and then paste them into the corresponding folders in your iCloud account.  Then do the same for the My Photos and the Notes folder. Enable your iCloud account in Settings and then you should have recovered all your data. 

We never remove any data from your Dropbox, so if your Dropbox files were current, then your iCloud backups should be current.

Photos

You may copy your photos from Dropbox and paste them into iCloud but you will need to use iBird's Photo Center to assign them.

Summary

Here is the entire set of paths to copy Lists, Notes and My Photos from Dropbox to iCloud:

FROM:

/Dropbox/Apps/iBird Pro North America/Lists
/Dropbox/Apps/iBird Pro North America/Notes
/Dropbox/Apps/iBird Pro North America/My Photos

TO:

/iCloud Drive/iBirdPRO/favoriteslists
/iCloud Drive/iBirdPRO/notes
/iCloud Drive/iBirdPRO/myphoto

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