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