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Missing messages in csv which are associated to images

Open andelepeter opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

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.

andelepeter avatar Oct 05 '19 11:10 andelepeter

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.

multimob avatar Jan 17 '21 19:01 multimob

Has anyone found a solution for this?

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

Japhys avatar Mar 12 '21 16:03 Japhys

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.

multimob avatar Mar 19 '21 09:03 multimob

Interesting! I will have a look

Japhys avatar Mar 19 '21 18:03 Japhys