Keeping capsules safe

Keep a copy

Open Capsules › Keep a copy. This phone is always one place. Add up to five folders of your own from the Files app: iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, a drive plugged into the phone. Every capsule you seal is copied to each of them. A place that is not reachable right now (a drive unplugged, no network) is simply “pending”; the copy is written the next time Livo sees it. Removing a place deletes nothing. With Curator, your OneDrive’s Livo Vault folder is a place as well, on by default when you are signed in.

Livo writes only its own capsule files into a place and never deletes anything there.

Checking

Livo quick-checks each capsule’s copies about once a week on its own, and while the app is closed it may check a few in the background. Check at the top of Capsules offers Check All. A capsule’s own screen has Quick Check and Verify Every File, which reads each copy and proves it byte for byte.

You only hear about trouble: one quiet notification when a copy needs attention, never a message that everything is fine.

Repair, Re-seal, Lost

If one copy is damaged or missing, the capsule’s screen offers Repair from a copy that checked out, in either direction. Nothing is ever replaced except from a verified copy, and a damaged file is moved aside, not deleted. If no good copy is left but the Memory is still here, Re-seal from the Memory makes a fresh capsule. If the Memory is gone too, the capsule is Lost, and Livo says so plainly.

Keepsakes

For a Memory that must never change, one you inherited, Keep forever (a Keepsake) on its screen, or when you receive it, marks it so that it is only ever repaired, never re-sealed or overwritten. With Curator, a Keepsake also gets a third copy in OneDrive › Livo Keepsakes, a folder Livo writes once and never deletes from.