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[Feature] delete data before a custom date

Open KolyaKorruptis opened this issue 11 months ago • 5 comments

For me MotionMate used to frequently turn itself off. Until I finally figured out to exempt the app from battery optimisation. This means I have months and weeks in the past where I did not walk at all, according to MotionMate, which skews my average distance per day statistic. I would like to delete the data before I found out how to keep MotionMate running. The only way I see right now is to uninstall and reinstall the app, losing all data.

KolyaKorruptis avatar Mar 13 '24 22:03 KolyaKorruptis

Hey, I think you could make use of the data import and export function and fix the data manually. Export the data, edit the file with a text editor and remove all the wrong entries and then import them back.

Of course this is not very user friendly, but apart from fixing this concrete problem, I don't see much value in having such a specific function or an edit function in general inside the app as something like that should not happen in general.

0xf4b1 avatar Mar 22 '24 23:03 0xf4b1

Thanks, this is good enough for my use case. I never knew this app had an options screen. When you mentioned the export/import I started tapping around wildly on the screen until I finally figured out that tapping the step-counter at the top opens the options screen.

KolyaKorruptis avatar Mar 23 '24 12:03 KolyaKorruptis

hehe, yes thats true, its not obvious at all :D I liked to keep the screen minimal, but may place a small button somewhere to open the settings so that its not like a hidden feature

0xf4b1 avatar Mar 23 '24 13:03 0xf4b1

Yeah, a small cogwheel icon would be nice.

KolyaKorruptis avatar Mar 23 '24 14:03 KolyaKorruptis

Simply exporting, editing and re-importing the data wasn't quite as smooth as hoped: 0 entries updated, 50 failed After uninstalling and re-installing: 8 entries updated, 48 failed Uninstalled again, restarted the phone, installed: Imported 50 entries, 0 failed So it worked eventually, but requires uninstalling and restarting the phone to get rid of all existing data.

KolyaKorruptis avatar Mar 24 '24 12:03 KolyaKorruptis