Can it back up an active Signal Desktop installation on Windows?

bepaald / signalbackup-tools

Tool to work with Signal Backup files.

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Closed 0xeb closed 1 month ago

0xeb commented 1 month ago

@bepaald can you help me please?

I can't figure out how to export the media, messages, etc. into HTML and decrypted media from an active Signal Desktop installation on Windows.

The tool manages to decrypt the database and so on.

But I don't know what [input] it needs so it works on the Signal appdata folder in Windows.

Please advise.

bepaald commented 1 month ago

Hi @0xeb!

To export the Signal Desktop database to HTML, you do not need an [input] file (as mentioned in the readme). Simply run:

signalbackup-tools_win.exe --exportdesktophtml [output_directory]

You could of course also add more options (see here for available ones).

Let me know if that works and answers your question.

Thanks!

0xeb commented 1 month ago

Thank you @bepaald , I appreciate your quick response. It works like a charm!