bepaald / signalbackup-tools

Tool to work with Signal Backup files.
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[Question] Does this allow user to Merge Android app backup with desktop chats? #101

Closed pixincreate closed 1 year ago

pixincreate commented 1 year ago

As the title says, does this allows a user to merge the android app backup with desktop synced chats? I've been using Signal on desktop while it's not yet installed on my phone. Last backup that I've on Android is of Feb 24 and all the chats do exist on PC. I want to merge both of them. Does this tool allows me to achieve the goal?

Thanks!

bepaald commented 1 year ago

It allows* to import messages from the Desktop into the Android backup, not the other way around.

* Though there are also still a few issues, especially for older Desktop databases which are being tracked here #57 and here #94.

pixincreate commented 1 year ago

from the Desktop into the Android backup

So it does allow me to merge the latest (today) chats from desktop to Android backup (24/02/2023 backup), right?

bepaald commented 1 year ago

Yes, at least that's what I'm attempting. If you try it out, just be sure to save the Android backup somewhere in case it doesn't work. And please let me know, good luck!

pixincreate commented 1 year ago

Cool, that did the job! Although a few messages got corrupted I got all of my other messages flawlessly! Thanks!

bepaald commented 1 year ago

Glad to hear it (mostly) worked. I am a little curious what kind of corruption you are seeing, maybe you could describe it?

Thanks!

pixincreate commented 1 year ago

I think the latest one, has fixed that, not sure. Some of the data straight away said that they cannot be restored.
I attached the logs of the latest one here:

logs.txt

bepaald commented 1 year ago

Yeah, not all message types are supported yet. Some will be in the future, but probably not all of them. Thanks for the feedback!

pixincreate commented 1 year ago

Cool. Thanks for this amazing project btw!