When you reinstall, why do only the old messages come back and not the new ones?

sindresorhus / caprine

Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app

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When you reinstall, why do only the old messages come back and not the new ones? #2153

Closed ThePit0 closed 6 months ago

ThePit0 commented 8 months ago

If I delete the program and reinstall it, only older messages that I have recently written disappear.However, they are there in the Facebook messages but not in the caprine program.

mquevill commented 7 months ago

This may be due to new methods of syncing messages from Facebook's side. If you have set up a PIN to sync messages, it should ask for that to sync all current messages.

Click on your profile picture in the lower left to access the Menu > Privacy & safety > End-to-end encrypted chats > Secure storage. You'll see a menu like the one below, where you can "Remember this browser" among other options for this feature.

mquevill commented 6 months ago

This is definitely related to the end-to-end encryption. You'll need to enter a PIN, but there are issues with the hide-preferences-window class that Caprine adds that (unintentionally) prevent the PIN window from showing up at times.

Closing this issue in favor of #2167.