Missing messages in csv which are associated to images

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Decrypt Signal encrypted backups outside the app

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Missing messages in csv which are associated to images #63

Open andelepeter opened 5 years ago

andelepeter commented 5 years ago

I am using the compiled version for windows and for me it looks like all messages are missing in the csv export which were sent in combination with images.

multimob commented 3 years ago

Same problem. The reason is that messages containing images are treated as MMS. Signal creates several tables, namely "sms" and "mms", each with its own set of messages. If signal-back only reads from the "sms" table we have a problem.

Japhys commented 3 years ago

Has anyone found a solution for this?

Btw already very happy I found this tool, saved the day

multimob commented 3 years ago

Maybe you might be interested to have a look at another tool: https://github.com/pajowu/signal-backup-decode I use it to convert a Signal backup file into a sqlite3 database. Then I parse the content of the tables with SQL queries to get a copy of both SMS and MMS messages.

Japhys commented 3 years ago

Interesting! I will have a look