thanks Rich - as always appreciate your taking the time to help- perhaps i didnt explain my position well enough.
I cant opehab-cli backup because the “bricked version 4” doesnt allow me to connect anylonger via putty *i will try actually to connect locally (keyboard and screen - incase it is a network issue)
i have a working copy of 3.4.2 but witj month old settings (which isnt upgrading correctly to version 4 either as Java 17 is failing exactly like this case. After upgrade to OH4 -remote connection refused - #10 by Wolfgang_S
i can access the SD card of the bricked version by using (on windows) Linux_Reader.exe
I would love to try and recover from the bricked v4.0 the items rules things that i have there by (copying?) the files to the old version.
basically a manual cli backup. my changes are primarily things + rules so i dont think i will loose much otherwise (nothing too complex)
does that make sense? is it indeed the folder you just mentioned in this use case?