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bepaald / signalbackup-tools

Tool to work with Signal Backup files.
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Does this work with desktop storage file from Session Messenger? #214

Closed bram-pkg closed 3 months ago

bram-pkg commented 3 months ago

Do you happen to know if this tool works with the state file that Session Messenger has on your PC?

bepaald commented 3 months ago

Good question, I don't know.

I'm not sure what this 'state file' is (not familiar with Session at all really, I'll answer as best I can, but it may be lacking).

On the Android side, this tool only works with Signal Android backup files. While Session is a fork of Signal, it does not seem to support backups, so that will not work.

For some features, a Signal Desktop database is also read (in order to import its contents into an Android backup, for instance). And I see Session Desktop is again a fork of the Signal software. So, depending on how much they've changed it may or may not be possible to read. Signal Desktop keeps its data in a directory containing two (important) files: config.json and sql/db.sqlite. If Session has these same files available somewhere you can simply try and see if they work. Use --desktopdirs to pass the right location (assuming it is not the standard Signal location), or copy and rename files as necessary.

Let me know if I can be of any more help. Thanks!

bram-pkg commented 3 months ago

Thanks for the quick response! I will check it.