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andreas-mausch / whatsapp-viewer

Small tool to display chats from the Android msgstore.db database (crypt12)
https://andreas-mausch.de/whatsapp-viewer/
MIT License
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Export separate images with mouseclick #56

Open Invictaz opened 6 years ago

Invictaz commented 6 years ago

You cannot export separate images from the conversation window. Messages are now exported in .txt / html / json but it is unclear if the database only contains thumbnails or also the images.

With size upto 20MB it might be that it also is images, as tekst is only some hundred kilobytes or megabytes.

Have the option to export the images if possible with right mouse click separately.

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andreas-mausch commented 6 years ago

it is unclear if the database only contains thumbnails or also the images

Unfortunately only thumbnails. See README.md: You cannot see bigger images because only thumbnails are stored in the database.

This is somehow related to #22. I'd like to provide an option for users who copied all media files to their PC to link that directory with WhatsApp Viewer, so they could see the full-size images directly in the viewer.

Invictaz commented 6 years ago

Well then the files must have the same filename and proper tags to link them to the images present. I wonder how WhatsApp Web does that as sometimes it does not (yet) have the image that is requested.