First of - thanks for the warm welcome to the Android community and thanks to both Petra & scary alien. Anyway, just to give you some background (and maybe others can learn from this, too) I bought my first Android phone (GNEx GSM) a couple of months ago. It was rooted and running 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. I was a quick study of things that new users should do and I installed Juice Defender (paid version) and TiBu (paid version, too). Well, after installing about 120 apps (it's very addictive I've discovered) and thoroughly enjoying the device, I read about Jelly Bean 4.2 and supposedly stable versions out there in Web-land. Well, you can guess where this is going. Being a noob I clicked on Backup/Restore, finally figured out that the grayed-out checkmark was the thing you touched to start the backup, then I clicked on the first three things under "Backup" and let 'er rip. Not one to be afraid of a challenge I installed the ROM on my internal flash card, downloaded TWRP (nice interface, btw) and I wiped and swiped my way to blissful thoughts and dreamed of being one of the first Canucks up here in The Frozen North to be running 4.2!
Well, what a clustermug that turned out to be: sleeps of death, frozen screens, cruddy phone, apps hanging, Firefox crashing, et al. So, enough of that; roll 'er back to an earlier version and wait for some other sucker to work out the bugs. So, I installed 4.1.1 from XDA-Developers.com and restored my apps using the much-praised TiBu. Now how do I insert a scream here? Nevermind - just imagine my horror when looking under "Restore" and all of the RUN tabs show "0". So, now I've got a high performance phone essentially burning wood and no apps to load back into it.
Wait, I say; have the doctor take a look at its guts, i.e., connect it to my PC and look at the directory contents via Explorer. Well, lo and behold, Android has decided to play with my mind and it's put TiBu so deep in the ground that miners could never find it. The path is: Galaxy Nexus>Internal Storage>0>0>0>Titanium Backup. And yes, there are 620 files which total 686 MB with extensions like: .apk & .tar all smiling back at me.
Now, this is where you smart people come into the picture. What am I supposed to do with that? TiBu can't or won't "drill down" that deep, I tried copying the files to the PC and moving them up the elevator, so to speak, but no luck. They're still stuck in Dantes Furnace and I have no idea how to bring 'em back to daylight. I also think that all those zeroes means something is wonky in OS. I figure it's better to start from scratch, maybe try 4.2 again (yes, I'm a masochist), reload all my favorite apps and be the happy camper I once was. So, I would really appreciate some solid advice from you Android pros out there that are prolly just busting a gut at all the dumb things I've done. Did I ever tell ya about the time I tried to remove my own appendix? Just kidding. Thanks in advance to any and all out there. And Petra, you should have written the Instruction Manual for TiBu because you're much better at it than Software Engineers who assume we're all knowing when it comes to computers.
Cheers,
Kevin