Arno Hautala

Subdirectories by chat could conflict with the deduplication that the original Attachments directory uses. Alternatively, attachments could be copied with their original structure and linked to the chat directory. #79

> > Subdirectories by chat could conflict with the deduplication that the original Attachments directory uses. > > It won't, every time imessage-exporter sees a message with an attachment, it...

This could be tricky as I think attachments are deduplicated and can be referenced by multiple messages of different dates. For example: ~~~~ $ grep -r 'Library/Messages/Attachments' ./message-export/txt/ | sed...

> @fracai This ticket is about preserving file metadata, not directory structure. Fair enough

> This was my assumption as well. Doesn’t that then invalidate @fracai post? It's very possible I misinterpreted the grep results that I saw. I'm running another export to clear...

I found a handful of legitimately deduplicated attachments. ~~~~ $ grep -r 'Library/Messages/Attachments' txt | sed 's/.*\.txt://' | wc -l 18480 $ grep -r 'Library/Messages/Attachments' txt | sed 's/.*\.txt://' |...

When I hear "global backup key" and "difficult, but not impossible to reassemble" I start to worry about how secure this can be made. If any data could become shared...

Ah, true if you're not looking for good security this does get easier. Though, I wonder if it would be enough for you to just use the same key, but...

Yeah I get that and I think it's probably a good idea to keep the snapshot file encrypted. And I understand the issue you're trying to overcome. What I'm say...

Yes, from the perspective of an outside attacker everything is still secure. From the perspective of each user though everyone can access the data of other users as the chunks...