/Signal/config.json not found in directory /Signal

[vinnytroia]

I am opening this as a new issue to my last comment. I have been able to tweak the OSX settings a bit and am getting closer.

First:

set SIGNAL_OUTPUT=~/Downloads/signal-output

set SIGNAL_INPUT=~/Library/Application Support/Signal

then I run:

docker run --rm -it --name signal-export \

-v ${SIGNAL_INPUT}:/Signal \ -v ${SIGNAL_OUTPUT}:/output \ carderne/signal-export:latest

or:

docker run --rm -it --name signal-export -v ${SIGNAL_INPUT}:/Signal -v ${SIGNAL_OUTPUT}:/output carderne/signal-export:latest

Output: WARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested Error: /Signal/config.json not found in directory /Signal

I can clearly see config.json in my ~/Library/Application Support/Signal folder.

Thanks

[carderne]

Hi @vinnytroia. The problem from your other issue https://github.com/carderne/signal-export/issues/52 and the config issue in this one is probably related to not quoting the paths. There seem to be some annoying inconsistencies in how Docker/bash/macOS/Linux deal with this. The culprit is that space in Application Support.

Try this:

docker run --rm -it --name signal-export \
  -v "~/Library/Application Support/Signal":/Signal \
  -v "~/Downloads/signal-output":/output \
  carderne/signal-export:latest

Or this:

docker run --rm -it --name signal-export \
  -v ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal:/Signal \
  -v ~/Downloads/signal-output:/output \
  carderne/signal-export:latest

[carderne]

As for the linux/arm64/v8 issue... I'll look into that, might need to build a separate Docker image for ARM users.

EDIT: try running with carderne/signal-export:multi-arch if you get the linux/arm64/v8 error again. (Basically, replace latest with multi-arch in the scripts above.)

[Strengthless]

Same issue.

Currently on Windows 10, using Docker and the .bashrc method.

signalexport () {
    if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
        echo 'Must provide output path as first parameters'
        echo 'e.g. signalexport output'
    else
        input="$HOME/AppData/Roaming/Signal/"
        output="D:/My files/Downloads/Signal export/"
        shift 1
        winpty docker run --rm -it --name signal-export \
          -v "$input:/Signal" \
          -v "$output:/output" \
          carderne/signal-export:latest $@
    fi
}

The shell script has been modified, due to the following errors that occurred on my end.

1. the input device is not a TTY. If you are using mintty, try prefixing the command with 'winpty' Fixed this issue by adding winpty before the docker command, as suggested by this stackoverflow article.

2. docker: invalid reference format: repository name must be lowercase. Fixed this issue by adding quotation marks to the -v argument, as suggested by this stackoverflow article.

Now those two errors are gone, but I'm getting Error: /Signal/config.json not found in directory /Signal upon running signalexport output --chats=Helix or signalexport --list-chats, basically any commands. Any idea why this is happening?

[carderne]

Thanks @Strengthless for figuring that out, have made README and helper script a bit better.

As for the error you're still getting...

1. Are you sure the Signal files are in "$HOME/AppData/Roaming/Signal/"?
2. If they are, try running the image directly without the helper script:

   winpty docker run --rm -it --name signal-export \
   -v "$HOME/AppData/Roaming/Signal/":/Signal \
   -v "D:/My files/Downloads/Signal export/":/output \
   carderne/signal-export:latest

[Strengthless]

Interesting... but nope, still doesn't work.

[carderne]

Maybe you need to play around with eg specifying the full path (with C:/... instead of $HOME) or something, but I can't help here. I don't even know what MINGW64 is.

[Strengthless]

As suggested by https://stackoverflow.com/a/53255978, I added an extra slash before the path, and it seemed to be working...?

winpty docker run --rm -it --name signal-export \
          -v "/$input:/Signal" \
          -v "/$output:/output" \
          carderne/signal-export:latest $@

Not sure what it means nor how it works though... But hey, at least it's a solution.

Aside from that, in case if anyone ever comes across this I/O disk error: I managed to fix it by simply closing the Signal app. Apparently the database was being accessed by Signal, and probably made the file read-only, causing this error.

Now the script is up and running for me. 👍

[vinnytroia]

Update:

When i try with quotes, i get this: docker: Error response from daemon: create ~/Library/Application Support/Signal: "~/Library/Application Support/Signal" includes invalid characters for a local volume name, only "[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]" are allowed. If you intended to pass a host directory, use absolute path. See 'docker run --help'.

when I try the other solution I get this: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sigexport/main.py", line 637, in main copy_attachments(src, dest, convos, contacts) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sigexport/main.py", line 70, in copy_attachments file_name += "." + att["contentType"].split("/")[1] IndexError: list index out of range

[vinnytroia]

It turns out that your solution worked. docker run --rm -it --name signal-export \ -v ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal:/Signal \ -v ~/Downloads/signal-output:/output \ carderne/signal-export:latest

I realized that the index out of range just means I never specified which user to export!

[Qazzquimby]

In case it helps anyone, my issue was trying to work through WSL instead of powershell. In wsl the signal folder exists but is empty.

[seanwynwins]

I'm also getting this error. I tried running

docker run --rm -it --name signal-export -v ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal:/Signal -v ~/Downloads/signal-output:/output carderne/sigexport:latest

and I get the output

Using Docker to extract data, this may take a while the first time!
Error: using Docker method, but is Docker installed?

Seems like there's a FileNotFound error being thrown somehow, but I verified that Docker is installed and running (docker run hello-world works)

[seanwynwins]

Running

docker run carderne/sigexport --source ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal/ --list-chats

I get the error

Error: ~/Library/Application Support/Signal/config.json not found in directory ~/Library/Application Support/Signal

I checked that the config.json was there, seems like it's failing this check though