xeals / signal-back

Decrypt Signal encrypted backups outside the app

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Ran installer, nothing happened #79

Open Researchguy007 opened 2 years ago

Researchguy007 commented 2 years ago

Operating system: Windows 10 Professional
Build version (signal-back --version): https://github.com/xeals/signal-back/releases/download/v0.1.6/signal-back_windows_386.exe

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I downloaded the installer into my Downloads folder and ran it. Windows intercepted it with a warning dialog. I clicked the More button and authorized the installation. That window closed. Nothing else seemed to happen. The Windows search box finds nothing but the installer, no actual program that can be run to decrypt Signal chat backups.

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Researchguy007 commented 2 years ago

Can someone please help me with this issue?

intradeus commented 2 years ago

@Researchguy007 the .exe is not an installer, it's a command line executable, you have to open your command line in the folder where the executable is (in your case, Downloads) and type the following command : signal-back_windows_386.exe format -f XML -o backup.xml <INSERT YOUR BACKUP FILE PATH>

This will write your backup in a file called "backup.xml"

If you're on windows x64 you should actually use back_windows_amd64.exe instead of not signal-back_windows_386.exe, which is for windows x86.