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TWRP not finding NANDroid backup?

So I'm trying to restore a nandroid back up with TWRP but it says it can't find one. I've found the backup folder so I'm thinking that it's just placed in the wrong folder for the phone to read. Can someone help me by letting me know where it should be so that I can place it in the right folder and do the restore? Thanks a bunch!

Was the backup created with TWRP or CWM? If CWM, TWRP will not be able to restore.

Rod3 said:
Was the backup created with TWRP or CWM? If CWM, TWRP will not be able to restore.
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It was created with TWRP, i must have moved the folder location but i don't remember from where. I'm just trying to find the right folder path for twrp to find that backup.

root_galaxy said:
It was created with TWRP, i must have moved the folder location but i don't remember from where. I'm just trying to find the right folder path for twrp to find that backup.
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You should have a folder named exactly "TWRP". This folder should have all your backups inside. Depending on the setting inside the twrp recovery, it will either look at the root of your internal memory or the root of your external memory. I forget where the setting is (i'm back on cwm) But poke around inside the recovery and see which location you checked. Alternatively, just place the folder at the root of your internal and see if twrp finds it. If it doesn't, move it to the root of your external and try again.

root_galaxy said:
It was created with TWRP, i must have moved the folder location but i don't remember from where. I'm just trying to find the right folder path for twrp to find that backup.
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In twrp it tells you where the backup will be...just make another backup and then move the old one into that folder
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yoft1 said:
You should have a folder named exactly "TWRP". This folder should have all your backups inside. Depending on the setting inside the twrp recovery, it will either look at the root of your internal memory or the root of your external memory. I forget where the setting is (i'm back on cwm) But poke around inside the recovery and see which location you checked. Alternatively, just place the folder at the root of your internal and see if twrp finds it. If it doesn't, move it to the root of your external and try again.
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I forgot about this step, external/internal, thanks! that was it!!!

For anyone else having this problem, I was experiencing the same issue, and I scoured the internet looking for solutions and some how came across this fix just by luck while messing around in TWRP. From what I read, I believe it happens when one updates from 4.1.x to 4.2.x., but maybe this problem occurs in other instances as well (I did upgrade my rom).
There is no reason or need to move files around. While in TWRP recovery, click on "Restore" and while on the Restore screen, click on the words towards the top of the screen, "Storage: Internal Storage (xxxxxx);" right below time and battery percentage There's an option to select two different storage solutions, "Internal Storage" or "USB-OTG." Just click on Internal Storage and then Ok and your problem should be fixed. TWRP will once again see your original/past backups.
At least by doing the above, my original backup is once again seen by TWRP Recovery, without actually moving any files around.

root_galaxy said:
So I'm trying to restore a nandroid back up with TWRP but it says it can't find one. I've found the backup folder so I'm thinking that it's just placed in the wrong folder for the phone to read. Can someone help me by letting me know where it should be so that I can place it in the right folder and do the restore? Thanks a bunch!
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even if your backup is in external, move it to internal. worked for me

aninstinctkiller said:
even if your backup is in external, move it to internal. worked for me
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You don't have to move it. Just tap restore and select from external sd card.

I just did a nandroid back up to my SD card but it doesn't show up in there? Any ideas?

[Q] Titanium Backup can't find the files to restore after installing new ROM.

After several tries, I finally successfully installed Cyanogenmod 10.2 on my Rogers Samsung Galaxy S3 for the first time. Unfortunately, Titanium Backup can't find the files to restore app+data. I've gone to Preferences > Backup folder location to detect where the backup is...and it says it's empty.
The weird thing is, when I'm in Clockwork Recovery mode and browse through the folders, the folder structure is identical to before I installed the ROM. Like I see the folder I stored the .zip files in, my photo folders, and a lot of other folders. But when I browse through the File Manager on the phone or when it's plugged into the computer, that stuff doesn't exist.
I'm not really too knowledgeable in this sorta thing, but I've rooted/installed new ROMs on my old Galaxy S before and successfully restored apps+data using Titanium Backup. I'm not too sure what's happening here
Did wiping data during the installation delete the backup too? My photos are gone as well (this didn't happen on the Galaxy S...), I don't mind though since I already backed it all up on my computer, but it's still surprising.
Any help to restore my apps and data is much appreciated!!
[PS: During the setup, Google can also restore apps that it backed up for me...but I've tried this and it only restores the apps and not the data...so I'm really hoping Titanium Backup will do that for me]

If I recall, CM changes the sdcard locations. So say before CM you had sdcard (internal) then extsdcard (external). I believe CM creates an sdcard 0 and 1. Try looking in both places. Good luck.

pre4speed said:
If I recall, CM changes the sdcard locations. So say before CM you had sdcard (internal) then extsdcard (external). I believe CM creates an sdcard 0 and 1. Try looking in both places. Good luck.
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Ya I couldn't find the backup in sdcard0. I should also mention that I made the mistake of storing it in internal, rather than external (sdcard1). The folders within sdcard0 is what it would look like on a new phone...
Anyways, I'm determined to find out how to recover it because it's in the phone SOMEWHERE because the folder structure still exists when I'm in Clockwork Recovery.

poutineroutine said:
Ya I couldn't find the backup in sdcard0. I should also mention that I made the mistake of storing it in internal, rather than external (sdcard1). The folders within sdcard0 is what it would look like on a new phone...
Anyways, I determined to find out how to recover it because it's in the phone SOMEWHERE because the folder structure still exists when I'm in Clockwork Recovery.
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Menu, preferences, backup folder location, search whole device it will find then use current folder it will then restart and you're set

louvass said:
Menu, preferences, backup folder location, search whole device it will find then use current folder it will then restart and you're set
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I did that many times already. It says 'No backup location was found'...

poutineroutine said:
I did that many times already. It says 'No backup location was found'...
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I'm having the exact same problem. Has this problem been solved?
Some help desperately needed here! Thanks!

This could all depend on if you backed everything up on your device or SD card? If internal then I want to say the AOSP rom will not recognize anything from stock. However if you stored all those files on the external SD card and all lose your data, then there is an issue.
Suggestion: flash stock and see if it all comes back. If so then move all data to external SD card. Flash AOSP rom then it will all be there. Let me know how it works out

[Q] Strange file directory structure

I’m rooted and using CW for my recovery. I’m using a pre-owned phone that I (thought) I wiped before rooting. I am running stock 4.2.2, baseband MDL.
Initially all I wanted to do was nandroid to my SD card in preparation for flashing a custom ROM. I have a 32GB card that my phone recognizes just fine, so I thought it would make sense to put the backup there. So I enabled Use External Storage in ROM Manager settings and tried to begin the backup process.
First I tried it using the ROM Manager itself. Got this error message:
Unknown volume for path [/external_sd/clockworkmod/backup/name of the backupfile here]
/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log
Please open ROM Manager to report the issue​
Then I tried doing it by going straight into Recovery and initiating it myself. That was in the Backup and Restore menu. The Backup location options were
/sdcard
/storage/sdcard1
Neither of those is the external card. Then I looked at the Advanced menu but there was no option that mentioned the external card. So it seems that the Recovery doesn’t see my external card. And the subdirectory options that Recovery wants to use do not exist on my phone.
At first I thought it was my SD card. I removed it, re-formatted it (non-Quick) on my computer, etc. I was still not able to save my recovery to my SD card. Again I see that CW want to put the recovery in a subdirectory that does not exist.
I was able to nandroid to the internal memory, so at least there’s that. But the file directories on my card are a mess that make no sense and don’t seem to match what I’ve seen on multiple forums.
Using ES File Explorer I see this from the root directory -
/storage/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/legacy
/storage/extSdCard
/storage/sdcard0 – this one has a little arrow at the start of the pathname. Does that make it a shortcut?
/storage/container – this one has a little arrow at the start of the pathname. Does that make it a shortcut?
Also from the root directory I see this –
/sdcard/ – this one has a little arrow at the start of the pathname
Then there are these –
/mnt which seems to have copies of sdcard and extSdCard
/mnt_1 which just has extSdCard, sdcard_1, sdcard_2, and sdcard_3
I’m running 4.2.2, baseband MDL. What I would like to do is get the directory structure back to stock and remove all the multiples of data and folders that I am seeing.
1. If I totally wipe the phone, will the stock file structure be restored?
2. If the answer to #1 is “yes”, what happens if I do an Advanced Restore, restoring Data from a nandroid created with the screwy structure? Does the screwy structure return?
Thanks,
Veronica

re: nandroid backup/restore
verngator said:
I’m rooted and using CW for my recovery. I’m using a pre-owned phone that I (thought) I wiped before rooting. I am running stock 4.2.2, baseband MDL.
Initially all I wanted to do was nandroid to my SD card in preparation for flashing a custom ROM. I have a 32GB card that my phone recognizes just fine, so I thought it would make sense to put the backup there. So I enabled Use External Storage in ROM Manager settings and tried to begin the backup process.
First I tried it using the ROM Manager itself. Got this error message:Unknown volume for path [/external_sd/clockworkmod/backup/name of the backupfile here]
/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log
Please open ROM Manager to report the issue​Then I tried doing it by going straight into Recovery and initiating it myself. That was in the Backup and Restore menu. The Backup location options were
/sdcard
/storage/sdcard1
Neither of those is the external card. Then I looked at the Advanced menu but there was no option that mentioned the external card. So it seems that the Recovery doesn’t see my external card. And the subdirectory options that Recovery wants to use do not exist on my phone.
At first I thought it was my SD card. I removed it, re-formatted it (non-Quick) on my computer, etc. I was still not able to save my recovery to my SD card. Again I see that CW want to put the recovery in a subdirectory that does not exist.
I was able to nandroid to the internal memory, so at least there’s that. But the file directories on my card are a mess that make no sense and don’t seem to match what I’ve seen on multiple forums.
Using ES File Explorer I see this from the root directory -
/storage/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/legacy
/storage/extSdCard
/storage/sdcard0 – this one has a little arrow at the start of the pathname. Does that make it a shortcut?
/storage/container – this one has a little arrow at the start of the pathname. Does that make it a shortcut?
Also from the root directory I see this –
/sdcard/ – this one has a little arrow at the start of the pathname
Then there are these –
/mnt which seems to have copies of sdcard and extSdCard
/mnt_1 which just has extSdCard, sdcard_1, sdcard_2, and sdcard_3
I’m running 4.2.2, baseband MDL. What I would like to do is get the directory structure back to stock and remove all the multiples of data and folders that I am seeing.
1. If I totally wipe the phone, will the stock file structure be restored?
2. If the answer to #1 is “yes”, what happens if I do an Advanced Restore, restoring Data from a nandroid created with the screwy structure? Does the screwy structure return?
Thanks,
Veronica
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If you wipe the phone using it's internal "factory data reset"
(settings>accounts>backup and reset>factory data reset)
It will restore the stock phone's internal sdcard's structures, directories and folders.
But what I would suggest is to download and odin flash the TWRP custom recovery,
that way you will not loose any data or user files and you will not have any problems
making or restoring nandroid backups.
TWRP is really easy to use and basically self-explanatory.
Here is the direct download link for TWRP: http://techerrata.com/get/twrp2/jfltetmo/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-jfltetmo.tar
Good luck!

Misterjunky said:
If you wipe the phone using it's internal "factory data reset"
(settings>accounts>backup and reset>factory data reset)
It will restore the stock phone's internal sdcard's structures, directories and folders.
But what I would suggest is to download and odin flash the TWRP custom recovery,
that way you will not loose any data or user files and you will not have any problems
making or restoring nandroid backups.
TWRP is really easy to use and basically self-explanatory.
Here is the direct download link for TWRP: http://techerrata.com/get/twrp2/jfltetmo/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-jfltetmo.tar
Good luck!
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Thanks!
Are you saying that using TWRP will preserve the file structures and that CW has some kind of effect on them...or that CW is the reason I can't put my backup on my SD card?

verngator said:
Thanks!
Are you saying that using TWRP will preserve the file structures and that CW has some kind of effect on them...or that CW is the reason I can't put my backup on my SD card?
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CWM or TWRP do not effect the file structures.
All I am saying is create a nandroid backup using TWRP and then restore
the backup. Then if it works properly for you then keep using twrp.
You will be pleasantly surprised how well twrp works and how easy it is to use.
Good luck!

[Q] TWRP backup folder location?

I just purchased the G3 a few days ago, am up and running with V20C rooted with TWRP custom recovery.
For the life of me, after doing 2 backups, I can't find the TWRP backup folder/files?!
I've done dozens of backups and restores using TWRP on many different phones but have yet to encounter this problem.
I know that the backup's exist because my storage space keeps going down every time I try to backup.
Has anyone had this issue before?
Thanks in advance!

zohan99 said:
For the life of me, after doing 2 backups, I can't find the TWRP backup folder/files?!
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It should be at:
/sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS
or
/storage/emulated/0/TWRP/BACKUPS​

Thanks for the reply. Obviously, I checked there, but the folders don't exist.
There is a TWRP file in the root folder, size is 0 bytes. This is really odd..

zohan99 said:
Thanks for the reply. Obviously, I checked there, but the folders don't exist.
There is a TWRP file in the root folder, size is 0 bytes. This is really odd..
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What does > TWRP(Recovery) > Restore > Select Storage / very top line, go through options it gives and you should find your Backup, if it exists in TWRP.

After searching a bit online, I was able to figure it out.
Booted into recovery, then plugged in USB cable. All of a sudden, the TWRP folder magically appeared on my computer, and I was able to copy the backup files.
No idea as to why this is happening..

zohan99 said:
After searching a bit online, I was able to figure it out.
Booted into recovery, then plugged in USB cable. All of a sudden, the TWRP folder magically appeared on my computer, and I was able to copy the backup files.
No idea as to why this is happening..
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Hi, I had the same identical problem and I found this thread searching for a solution. Not a single file manager could find the twrp folder but it existed, I could'nt create a new folder with that name in storage/sdcard. In the meantime I found a topic in which an user finds his backups in DATA/MEDIA/(etc), I tried and it works, but still apps like titanium and others couldn't access that folder! In a moment tried to set selinux mode to permissive and immediately titanium sees the nandroid! I think this is a VERY IMPORTANT info, I have stock rom bumped and rooted, can anyone copy this post to a more important troubleshooting topic?
Edit: I see some nexus 4 users had the same problem, this could be caused by lollipop instead of the g3 environment or the root method or so

Unable to Extract from TWRP Nandroid Backup using Titanium Backup

Hi All,
Been trying to figure this out for the last 30 Hours straight & now I'm at the end of my rag with bloody knuckles & a hole in my desk... So I thought this would be a good a time as any to ask for some advice/help!
I have upgraded/flashed my HTC One M8 (2014) from LP (Android_Revolution_HD-One_M8_41.0_866186) to MM (ResurrectionRemix-M-v5.6.2-20160203-m8) (Based off CM13). I created a backup of all my Apps & Data using Titanium Backup & also made a full Nandroid backup using TWRP.
The problem is with restoring the data within the Nandroid backup, previously I have used the "Extract Data From Nandroid Backup" option in Titanium Backup to extract my SMS/MMS messages to my new Rom. However when I try to do that on MM I'm greeted with the message "Failed to locate your TWRP backups directory. Please verify that the "TWRP/BACKUPS" folder exists on your SD card."
To make thing worse, when I try to restore my Nandroid backup, it all goes well except my WiFi & Mobile Data no longer work... I can connect to my WiFi but it always says that there is no internet connection. So restoring is not an option as I can't do much without internet access.
Anyone have any ideas? I have tried to use a different SD Card & no joy, could it maybe be a permissions issue or something or am I just being a muppet & missing a simple solution.
Either way any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Oh yeah, I Googled the message that Titanium brings up with quotation marks & there were only TWO results (both from the same thread on XDA)... I've never seen Google look so barren!

Hi - I'm having a similar issue. Upgraded from LP to MM and can't extract apps/data from Nandroid backup...
It says it's been successful but no apps are there...

NeoSonic said:
Hi All,
Been trying to figure this out for the last 30 Hours straight & now I'm at the end of my rag with bloody knuckles & a hole in my desk... So I thought this would be a good a time as any to ask for some advice/help!
I have upgraded/flashed my HTC One M8 (2014) from LP (Android_Revolution_HD-One_M8_41.0_866186) to MM (ResurrectionRemix-M-v5.6.2-20160203-m8) (Based off CM13). I created a backup of all my Apps & Data using Titanium Backup & also made a full Nandroid backup using TWRP.
The problem is with restoring the data within the Nandroid backup, previously I have used the "Extract Data From Nandroid Backup" option in Titanium Backup to extract my SMS/MMS messages to my new Rom. However when I try to do that on MM I'm greeted with the message "Failed to locate your TWRP backups directory. Please verify that the "TWRP/BACKUPS" folder exists on your SD card."
To make thing worse, when I try to restore my Nandroid backup, it all goes well except my WiFi & Mobile Data no longer work... I can connect to my WiFi but it always says that there is no internet connection. So restoring is not an option as I can't do much without internet access.
Anyone have any ideas? I have tried to use a different SD Card & no joy, could it maybe be a permissions issue or something or am I just being a muppet & missing a simple solution.
Either way any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Oh yeah, I Googled the message that Titanium brings up with quotation marks & there were only TWO results (both from the same thread on XDA)... I've never seen Google look so barren!
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Is your TWRP backup folder on the external sdcard? If so, did you give Titanium access? There's multiple thread about apps needing to be given permission to access external storage. Titanium Backup especially has a lot of threads detailing this because of steps needed to access your backup folder if it is on the external sdcard.
topjohnwu said:
Q: **** app cannot access external SDcard!!
A: Look at this explanation:
Since Kitkat (2 years ago man), we don't have direct external storage write permission. Google consider it insecure, so they implemented this feature. The reason why you can access external SDcard easily before is because most roms on XDA already contains a hack in /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml. You should not rely on this hack forever, please take a look below.
In lollipop and after, Google provided a much secure and better way to grant external storage access to third party apps, first of all take a look at this article for details:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...s-automatic-mediastore-and-improves-security/
So instead of using the old platform.xml hack in the old Kitkat days, adopt yourself with this new behavior of Android!! If a certain app cannot access SDcard, ASK THE DEVELOPER to add support for this API!!
Many apps already have support for this API. I'll take Titanium Backup for example, as lots of you cannot find the way to use it on externals SD. In Menu>>Preferences>>Backup Location, you can choose Document Provider on top of the detect button.
In the provider, open the menu on the top right corner and select "Show SDcard", then you'll see External Storage in the left side. Select external SDcard in the document provider and press the button on the bottom, the app will then be granted access to the whole external storage. You can then create a new folder in TiBack and select it as your backup location.
Other apps also follows the instructions above, you just have to manually set up the folder where the app can access, in the case which most of us would love to give access to the whole SDcard, I set the location to the root of external storage. Each app has independent permission, so you have to manually grant each app you wish to access external storage.
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-Duir- said:
Is your TWRP backup folder on the external sdcard? If so, did you give Titanium access? There's multiple thread about apps needing to be given permission to access external storage. Titanium Backup especially has a lot of threads detailing this because of steps needed to access your backup folder if it is on the external sdcard.
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'allo mate, I appreciate the reply but it has done nothing for me, just to clarify, I can see my backed up Apps & Data so I'm pretty sure it already has access to the SD card (correct me if I'm wrong) but it is still unable to see the Nandroid TWRP backup... bit of a Jar as I just paid for the premium version of Titanium Backup & Nandroid Manager. Nandroid Manager is able to see the files but hangs when trying to extract the Messages...
Any Ideas?

NeoSonic said:
'allo mate, I appreciate the reply but it has done nothing for me, just to clarify, I can see my backed up Apps & Data so I'm pretty sure it already has access to the SD card (correct me if I'm wrong) but it is still unable to see the Nandroid TWRP backup... bit of a Jar as I just paid for the premium version of Titanium Backup & Nandroid Manager. Nandroid Manager is able to see the files but hangs when trying to extract the Messages...
Any Ideas?
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Copy or move the backup folder to internal storage and it will work. Not sure if it's a bug in TB or because of how MM handles the external sdcard but it doesn't check it. It finds the TWRP folder on internal, which if you don't backup on internal, only has your preferences (and theme if you use one). I never used it, so not sure if it was an issue before MM or not.
I did try and got an error about not finding a "clockworkmod/backup" folder or a "TWRP/Backups" folder so to see what happened I made a "Backups" folder in the TWRP directory on my internal storage and the error basically changed to say there were no backups in it.

-Duir- said:
Copy or move the backup folder to internal storage and it will work. Not sure if it's a bug in TB or because of how MM handles the external sdcard but it doesn't check it. It finds the TWRP folder on internal, which if you don't backup on internal, only has your preferences (and theme if you use one). I never used it, so not sure if it was an issue before MM or not.
I did try and got an error about not finding a "clockworkmod/backup" folder or a "TWRP/Backups" folder so to see what happened I made a "Backups" folder in the TWRP directory on my internal storage and the error basically changed to say there were no backups in it.
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Cheers for that mate, seems to have done the trick. Unfortunately when I restore my Phone & Messaging data it completely destroys my phone... I get the message "com.android.phone" has stopped working & the entire system slows down to a crawl... I also get the Sim Card icon in the top right of the screen with a line through it... Is this because I'm moving between Sense to something else? I'm really at my wits end with this.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

NeoSonic said:
Cheers for that mate, seems to have done the trick. Unfortunately when I restore my Phone & Messaging data it completely destroys my phone... I get the message "com.android.phone" has stopped working & the entire system slows down to a crawl... I also get the Sim Card icon in the top right of the screen with a line through it... Is this because I'm moving between Sense to something else? I'm really at my wits end with this.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
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I would say that's definitely it. Not only are you restoring app data for system apps from two different Android versions (LP -> MM) which can be buggy, but also for two completely different builds (Sense -> CM) which don't use the same apps. Sense will use HTC's own Phone and Messaging apps and CM if I remember uses stock Android versions). It's been too long since I tried CM but when I did it I had a third-party program for backing up contacts and installed something like GoSMS to backup messages, then installed the same apps on CM and restored the data from within those apps and the stock dialer/messaging apps had the data. But this was before HTC added backup/restore capability into their versions of the apps.

I'm having a similar issue, I google searched and it brought me here. I can see my backup from within TWRP, even on the PC I can see the TWRP folder and files. But when I boot and use titanium backup or nandroid manager, it says backup not found. Even in the root browser, the TWRP folder is empty and even on the PC I can't see the files anymore. Its kind of frustrating because there are two apps that I want restored but I don't want to completly restore using TWRP.

rapiollymega said:
I'm having a similar issue, I google searched and it brought me here. I can see my backup from within TWRP, even on the PC I can see the TWRP folder and files. But when I boot and use titanium backup or nandroid manager, it says backup not found. Even in the root browser, the TWRP folder is empty and even on the PC I can't see the files anymore. Its kind of frustrating because there are two apps that I want restored but I don't want to completly restore using TWRP.
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Try going to Settings>Apps, find Titanium Backup, then select Permissions and see if Storage is toggled on.

I've got the same problem, storage permission is toggled on. Although I am using a LG G3

same here with my Galaxy S5 (AOKP 6.0.1)

The same problem on Xiaomi Mi Max (Android 6.0.1). External SD card permission is granted to TB (it can see full SD contents and select TWRP backup directories). But "extract from Nandroid backup" shows "folder not found" error.
I'm afraid CWM/TWRP directory locations are hardcoded as "/TWRP on SD card" while /sdcard is mapped to internal memory on modern phones.
I had copied data files of the backup (1.5 gigs, not a best choice) to internal memory (/sdcard) and TB immediately found them. Unfortunately, TB offers only apps and app data for restoration. I need to extract plain user data directories but TB offers no way for that.

Stock S5 6.0.1
same here...what a pain..
Had to copy nandroid backup from extsd to internal storage to restore app data

-Duir- said:
Is your TWRP backup folder on the external sdcard? If so, did you give Titanium access? There's multiple thread about apps needing to be given permission to access external storage. Titanium Backup especially has a lot of threads detailing this because of steps needed to access your backup folder if it is on the external sdcard.
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DAMN THANK YOU that solved it

Anyone knows how to extract the nandroidbackup from the TWRP folder on ExternalStorage? I cannot move the backup because its to large for my InternalStorage. I think it's an issue in TiBackup, creating a symbolic link also does not work since my ExternalStorage is formatted as exFAT.

Another fix I discovered is get your BACKUP ID
twrp save folder > TWRP>BACKUPS>BACKUPID>backup
if you have a backup without a backupid folder it will not work!

Having storage permission or not doesn't seem to help at all!

-Duir- said:
Is your TWRP backup folder on the external sdcard? If so, did you give Titanium access? There's multiple thread about apps needing to be given permission to access external storage. Titanium Backup especially has a lot of threads detailing this because of steps needed to access your backup folder if it is on the external sdcard.
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This helps Titanium Backup see its own backup folder, but doesn't help it see the /TWRP/BACKUPS folder

emuzychenko said:
I'm afraid CWM/TWRP directory locations are hardcoded as "/TWRP on SD card" while /sdcard is mapped to internal memory on modern phones.
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Can a symlink be created from the location it's looking to the location it's actually at?