Thread:Neo34/@comment-28658064-20160729171653/@comment-27642721-20160730085927

......but at the rate at which they seem to come around, wish I only got one every five years now :-)

Great that you have root access...so much simpler.

The path for the game files is:

/data/data/com.g5e.secretsociety/files/Mytona/Social_HOG

In case you've made any game progress since the first restore it's probably a good idea to make another backup before restoring your Helium backup a second time. As an alternative to using Helium, you could just backup the player.prf file. (No need to worry about the player_backup.prf or player_backup2.prf as they are recreated from the restored player.prf)....very much smaller than 57Mb :-). Note: When restoring a player.prf file all three current .prf files should be deleted, otherwise a mix of restored player.prf & newer _backup & _backup2 versions can cause a failure of the restored file to take precedence & you end up changing nothing as it's over-written by the backups.

I use ES File Explorer too, and find the Network...Remote Manager ftp useful for getting the files off the tablet. However, it's not so good for putting them back, so for that I use the File Manager (ZenUI, Asus Computer Inc) PC file transfer web interface "upload" functionality.. However, File Manager doesn't have access to the root files and so the transfer back is a two stage process...File Manager for PC->Tablet sdcard then ES to move from sdcard->game folder.

Ok...back to the FL... once you've restored your Helium a second time, there should be a Friends_List.xml file in the Social folder which should contain all the data pertinent to your lost friends. If the FL gets wiped on the servers, which sounds like what's happened here, then this file is immediately over-written with an empty file once you start the game. Get a copy of this file using ES ftp; it's reasonably easy to read in any text editor though the absence of LF/CR means that Windows Wordpad works better than Notepad, for instance. If the file contains your old friends data then let me have a copy as an email attachment and I can work my magic to reconnect you.