Re:Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
by andyjohnson0 on Thursday March 07, 2024 @07:36AM
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Whatsapp on Android lets you export a chat with or without media (images etc), but it limits the number of messages. With media you get the last 10k messgaes, and without you get the last 40k. Emojis are preserved though.
See https://faq.whatsapp.com/1180414079177245/?cms_platform=andr...
The limits are supposedly due to email size limits but, as they also apply when exporting to non-email endpoints like Google Drive, I suspect they're more to do with preventing people from moving their chats to other services.
And yes, the db is encrypted.
Re:Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
by nolongerthere on Thursday March 07, 2024 @08:59AM
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I wonder if those limits will be eased with the new EU regulations…
Re:Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
by Rygian on Thursday March 07, 2024 @05:55PM
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GDPR is already 6 years old.
Re:Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
by adastral on Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:23PM
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> they'll be encrypted
Since some months (years?) ago, WhatsApp lets you set up your own encryption password for the DB backup. I set one up and used https://github.com/ElDavoo/wa-crypt-tools to get access to the decrypted SQLite and run some analytics over my messages :)
As for extracting from the backup DB, they'll be encrypted..