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pajowu / signal-backup-decode

Decode Signal Backups
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Process getting locked but I don't know why or how. #4

Closed DaveKap closed 6 years ago

DaveKap commented 6 years ago

Windows 7. After running the command, it seems like the program runs for a while but then ends with this error. I see no good reason for this error to happen, I'm definitely not trying to access these files through any other program. Tried it again without anti-virus, in case that was the cause, but that wasn't it either. Any clues for what might be locking the process?

X:\asdf>signal-backup-decode --sqlite-path X:\sqlite  signal-2018-05-26-16-44-13
.backup --password <removed for security purposes>
Database Version: 7ed 1 frames, 0 attachments, 54 bytes into file
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
(os error 32), Could not move C:\Users\DAVEKA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\.tmpxGtzSp\si
gnal_backup.sqlite to X:\sqlite, trying copy
Error: Error(Io(Os { code: 32, kind: Other, message: "The process cannot access
the file because it is being used by another process." }), State { next_error: N
one, backtrace: None })
pajowu commented 6 years ago

hey, could you try to run the tool with --no-tmp-sqlite? With that the tool will be much slower, but it should fix this issue. Also the sqlite file should be available in X:\sqlite. The error seems to occur when this tool tries to remove the temporary file. If not check the temporary file itself (C:\Users\DAVEKA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\.tmpxGtzSp\signal_backup.sqlite in this case)

DaveKap commented 6 years ago

I think that worked but I'm honestly not sure. I'm trying to use this to merge my signal history into my normal default android SMS/MMS history but the output of running the script sent nothing to X:\sqlite but it did create 3 folders which don't seem to be formatted in a data set that I understand how to use.

Was I perhaps expecting too much out of this repo?

pajowu commented 6 years ago

The files in the avatars folder are JPGs, the files in the config folder are plaintext files, the files in the attachments folder are different file types. They can be anything from JPGs to PDFs to ZIPs, depending on what you send. To identifiy the file types, you might want to use somthing like file on linux or TrID on windows

DaveKap commented 6 years ago

Going to make a new issue with a wiki edit suggestion.