Correct Method to Copy Local App Data Between Two JB Devices

[BzowK]

Hey Guys -

My question is pretty simple: What is the best way to copy locally saved application data between tweo jailbroken devices for a specific application? The bad thing is that I have one shot at this as my level progress will transfer over to the new iPad even without a copy, but the sequential days logged in will reset if content isn't correctly copied.

I got an iPad Pro (A12) for Christmas and since then have used it for everything except playing Candy Crush Soda nightly which I must do on my old iPad since the daily save data doesn't save into the cloud. 🙁 Fortunately, the A12 jailbreak was released today, I've already jailbroken the iPad Pro (old iPad was already jailbroken), have SSH'd into each, and am in the Candy Crush folder within each (/private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/AppHexID/ - got the hex ID for each using Filza)

I downloaded the entire app folder from each for backup. The old iPad contained 2,575 files while the new iPad Pro (haven't ever launched CC on it) contained just 16 🙂 With that being said, should I...

1. Copy & Overwrite all files/folders then verify permissions match?
2. Copy & Skip Existing all files/folders then verify permissions match?
   
3. Copy & Overwrite just the Documents folder then verify permissions match?
4. Copy & Overwrite just the Documents & Library folders then verify permissions match?
5. Copy & Skip Existing for just the Documents & Library folders then verify permissions match?
   
6. Something different?

My current thought is #5 since the app hasn't ever been launched, but not sure which is why I'm posting...

Below is a comparison of the amount of content from each backup if it helps...
Old iPad (Content to Transfer)

• /Documents 2,265 files / 77 folders / 23.5mb
• /Library: 33 files / 44 folders / 60.5mb
• /StoreKit: 1 file / 0 folders / 4.66kb
• /SystemData: 7 files / 5 folders / 88.6kb
• /tmp: 1 file / 1 folder / 79 bytes

New iPad Pro (Copying Content To)

• /Documents 0 files / 1 folders / 0mb
• /Library: 14 files / 10 folders / 933kb (Difference includes Cookies & Google Ad data, but 99% of it is content of Caches folder)
• /StoreKit: 1 file / 0 folders / 4.66kb
• /SystemData: 0 files / 0 folders / 0kb
• /tmp: 0 file / 0 folder / 0 bytes

If it makes a difference, the old iPad runs 11.x and new one 12.x obviously.

Any suggestions are appreciated - Thanks!

 

[BzowK]

Hey Guys -

Despite no replies, I went for it and choose to go with option #4 above... and it worked!!

For any others who may have this question in the future, once I uploaded (and replaced) all files on the new device; I verified permissions were the same as on the old device then launched CC for the first time. I was immediately prompted to log into Facebook (which it uses to sync just the level information) so did so. Once done, CC displayed my daily "reward" ~300 days in as I was hoping. If I had not copied these files, it would have reset to day #1 as that information is not synced to the cloud.

Hope it helps someone. Thanks