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Export of large chats not possible via GUI buttons

Open ModischFabrications opened this issue 4 years ago • 8 comments

Related to #32, which does not seem "resolved" to me.

I have the same problem that exporting a selected chat does not work:

  1. Select small chat (500 msg), press .txt -> exportDialog, everything working
  2. Select huge chat (51.000 msg), [loading time ~20s], press .txt -> nothing happens, CPU stays idle, waiting >20min still won't show anything

Other export formats behave the same. I can't share the files due to the private nature of these chats but it seems like the problem stems not in the file but the size.

OS: Win10 Professional

ModischFabrications avatar Nov 18 '19 15:11 ModischFabrications

java --version java 11.0.1 2018-10-16 LTS Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.1+13-LTS) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (b

mikristaly132210 avatar Nov 18 '19 15:11 mikristaly132210

https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer/issues/95#issuecomment-555061766

mikristaly132210 avatar Nov 23 '19 17:11 mikristaly132210

#95 (comment)

I have no clue what you are trying to tell me, linking to it again has not given me any more to think about...

ModischFabrications avatar Nov 23 '19 20:11 ModischFabrications

I'll try to reproduce that.

andreas-mausch avatar Apr 23 '20 09:04 andreas-mausch

Right now I just exported a chat with 191 000 messages. It would crash if I just clicked any export option as soon as possible, but I gave the program some time to try and load the chat first. I believe it was some 15 or 20 minutes, I was doing other things. Anyway, all 3 export options worked fine and within some 10s.

fabiorzfreitas avatar Jun 09 '20 23:06 fabiorzfreitas

Hi, I'm currently having the same problem. A chat with over 120'000 messages will take a long time to load in the GUI and if the export chat is clicked, the program crashes. Will try @fabiorfreitas approach of waiting as long as it takes for the chat to appear before exporting.

Is there any cmd option to export without GUI? Thanks

jmribeiro avatar Aug 13 '20 14:08 jmribeiro

@jmribeiro YSK that I ended up resorting to a similar app on the Play Store, BackupTextForWhatsapp. It's not the same, but it worked for my purposes.

fabiorzfreitas avatar Aug 13 '20 17:08 fabiorzfreitas

exporting large chats isn't possible in GUI i have 4,00,000+ msgs in a chat i waited for almost 2 hrs still the cpu stays idle. @andreas-mausch is their any way i can export ?

iamsj7 avatar Aug 30 '20 15:08 iamsj7