What ever happened to Dashwire?

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You can restore *.vol files manually. Just copy the ones you want to keep to an external medium, (HDD or flash card), and once you need to restore them, change the existing *.vol files to have the extenstion of *.bak, copy over the *.vol files you have archived back to the root of your device, and soft-reset. After your phone has restarted, delete the *.bak files, and reset once again. Your phone will now have all data that was there prior to the event that necessitated a restoration in the first place.