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Export your Signal chats to markdown files with attachments
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Not exporting up to very latest chats #57

Closed hamensman closed 2 years ago

hamensman commented 2 years ago

Using Arch Linux. Installed docker. I set the appropriate environmental variables. (In other words, doing the Easy mode (maybe?): Docker method)

Ran this:

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

All the chats of my conversations were exported, but only up to a certain date - where they stop varies between contacts.

For example, a conversation with one contact started (visible to signal-desktop) on October 30 2021. The export should show from that to February 19 2022. But it only shows from October 30 2021 to December 31 2021.

Is there some kind of limit which signal-export can export chats? And thus an expected occurrence? Or am I overlooking something?

carderne commented 2 years ago

Have you checked that Signal Desktop is up to date with what’s on your phone? There is no filtering n signal-export.

hamensman commented 2 years ago

Yes - signal-desktop is indeed update to date with my phone.

carderne commented 2 years ago

Weird… first step is to add the —verbose flag and see if anything interesting pops up. After that you might have to try add some print statements in strategic spots to see if you can figure out what’s going on!

hamensman commented 2 years ago

I figured it out now. Had to use the --paginate 0 flag!