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isamert / scli

a simple terminal user interface for signal messenger (using signal-cli)
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Attachment name format #194

Closed mark2185 closed 2 years ago

mark2185 commented 2 years ago

I'd love to be able to prepend the current date to the images I receive so I can find them more easily, is this something already implemented and I can't find it in the documentation or?

exquo commented 2 years ago

The attachments are saved by signal-cli, with their IDs as filenames.

In principle, scli could choose to move and rename them after they are received. In case signal-cli is used by some program other than scli, this might break its expectations to the names and locations of attachments.

To be able to find attachments by date, you can sort the files in the attachments folder by the files' creation time.

mark2185 commented 2 years ago

The attachments are saved by signal-cli, with their IDs as filenames.

That's what I thought, thanks.

In principle, scli could choose to move and rename them after they are received. In case signal-cli is used by some program other than scli, this might break its expectations to the names and locations of attachments.

Unless it copies it into ~/.cache/scli/attachments or something.

To be able to find attachments by date, you can sort the files in the attachments folder by the files' creation time.

Yup, that's my current approach.