Thanks to mrhappy here's a way to restore your project from your iPhone/iDevice in case you have lost your project:
After doing something monumentally stupid (sending my laptop back for service, backing up all my HSTouch files into a big rar file, then leaving said rar file on the laptop forgetting to transfer it somewhere else, a laptop i'm probably now going to get replaced ) I was faced with trying to get my iPhone HSTouch project off the iPhone.
I thought I would post here as I have had moderate success and it may be of use to someone in the future.
1) Backup your iPhone in iTunes by right clicking on the side panel and clicking 'backup', it will probably take some time to do depending on what you have on your iPhone.
2) Navigate to "%appdata%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\", this should then show you a folder with a 40 odd digit string of numbers (some sort of unique backup/device ID). I would copy this directory straight to your desktop and work from this directory.
3) Even though there is not very much on my iPhone there were still over 5,000 files in the directory, this is every file on the phone including SMS, phone book, tasks, settings etc.
4) You will notice most of the files have .mddata or .mdinfo extensions, all the files have similar long character hex filenames and you will have a 0a137fa8dd385292d709cfe50c516260b1985d1a.mddata and another 0a137fa8dd385292d709cfe50c516260b1985d1a.mdinfo file.
The mdinfo file can be opened in notepad, the contents of which are mostly garbage but somewhere in the middle you will see "Documents/iSkin/Buttons/selectareaback-pressed.png" or similar which obviously looks like it has come from HSTouch. The XML file was the far easiest to find as in explorer I arranged all of the files by size and that was the largest (depending on what you have on your iPhone will obviously change that) and in the middle of it was "VDomain_Documents/min4.xmlS3.0_ AppDomain-com.homeseer.HSTouch"
To resuscitate the files you need, simply rename the corresponding .mddata file to your choice of filename, so xx.mddata becomes min4.xml, open it up in notepad and you should find it resembles an XML file - then you can open it up in HSTouch.
This will be dependent on all the graphics files being recovered also, i'm still in the process of finding all of mine. It is however exactly the same process, rename the .mddata to .png or .gif and it should open up straight away.
Its a long-winded process, but far shorter than actually redoing the entire project and re-editing all of my image files. There are potentially other solutions out there involving jailbroken phones and accessing the root directory, I could not get this to work however.
Hopefully it also works on the iTouch, can't see why it won't.
After doing something monumentally stupid (sending my laptop back for service, backing up all my HSTouch files into a big rar file, then leaving said rar file on the laptop forgetting to transfer it somewhere else, a laptop i'm probably now going to get replaced ) I was faced with trying to get my iPhone HSTouch project off the iPhone.
I thought I would post here as I have had moderate success and it may be of use to someone in the future.
1) Backup your iPhone in iTunes by right clicking on the side panel and clicking 'backup', it will probably take some time to do depending on what you have on your iPhone.
2) Navigate to "%appdata%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\", this should then show you a folder with a 40 odd digit string of numbers (some sort of unique backup/device ID). I would copy this directory straight to your desktop and work from this directory.
3) Even though there is not very much on my iPhone there were still over 5,000 files in the directory, this is every file on the phone including SMS, phone book, tasks, settings etc.
4) You will notice most of the files have .mddata or .mdinfo extensions, all the files have similar long character hex filenames and you will have a 0a137fa8dd385292d709cfe50c516260b1985d1a.mddata and another 0a137fa8dd385292d709cfe50c516260b1985d1a.mdinfo file.
The mdinfo file can be opened in notepad, the contents of which are mostly garbage but somewhere in the middle you will see "Documents/iSkin/Buttons/selectareaback-pressed.png" or similar which obviously looks like it has come from HSTouch. The XML file was the far easiest to find as in explorer I arranged all of the files by size and that was the largest (depending on what you have on your iPhone will obviously change that) and in the middle of it was "VDomain_Documents/min4.xmlS3.0_ AppDomain-com.homeseer.HSTouch"
To resuscitate the files you need, simply rename the corresponding .mddata file to your choice of filename, so xx.mddata becomes min4.xml, open it up in notepad and you should find it resembles an XML file - then you can open it up in HSTouch.
This will be dependent on all the graphics files being recovered also, i'm still in the process of finding all of mine. It is however exactly the same process, rename the .mddata to .png or .gif and it should open up straight away.
Its a long-winded process, but far shorter than actually redoing the entire project and re-editing all of my image files. There are potentially other solutions out there involving jailbroken phones and accessing the root directory, I could not get this to work however.
Hopefully it also works on the iTouch, can't see why it won't.
. I still have my project but for some reason all of the commands have disappeared so it's not like re doing the whole project. Just going true each button and re programming it. Some of the pages have same buttons so I can do copy paste. Probably easier option.
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