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bepaald / signalbackup-tools

Tool to work with Signal Backup files.
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Failed to open back up #148

Closed Stargazer76434 closed 1 year ago

Stargazer76434 commented 1 year ago

Hi there,

I am trying to run the file on windows, but receiving the following:

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Any idea what could be wrong?

Thanks

bepaald commented 1 year ago

Hi! This is not a GUI application, you need to run it in a terminal. I believe on Windows people usually have 'cmd' or 'Powershell', one (or both?) of those is certainly installed by default.

Then you navigate to the directory where the tool is located and run signalbackup-tools.exe [inputfile] [passphrase] followed by whatever options you want the tool to do (for all the options see the README). For example:

signalbackup-tools.exe signal-2023-09-01-12-00-00.backup 123456789012345678901234567890 --exporthtml HTMLDIR/

Let me know if this is clear, or if you need more help. Thanks!

bepaald commented 1 year ago

You may not need it, but I've made a little video of running this program on Windows 10. I'm going to post it here so I can link to it when other people inquire about this (you weren't the first, and you won't be the last 😃)

https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools/assets/38437099/cf6bb656-8985-4028-a12c-a8b25f1cb551

Stargazer76434 commented 1 year ago

This helps. Thanks!

bepaald commented 1 year ago

👍 No worries, if you need more help, let me know.

And thanks for your report, I've now not only finally made that video, I've also put a little extra note in the README and changed the error message when no input is provided.