XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-26 20:38, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > micky  wrote:   
   >> In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:49:27 -0500, micky   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Trying to export chats from Whatsapp to windows 11.   
   >>>   
   >>> Twice it worked, then immediateadly stopped.   
   >>>   
   >>> 17 more tries, one worked!   
   >>>   
   >>> Phone is only 2 feet from laptop, but once I held it 6 inches away, no   
   >>> change.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sometimes it says  "whatsapp share file file not sent" and once in a   
   >>> while there's a different error message.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yesterday it wouldn't work at all.   
   >>>   
   >>> Also can't export to Google drive, yesterday not at all, today once, but   
   >>> not the second time!   
   >>   
   >> And the one I just exported to Drive, I can't find in Drive?   
   >>>   
   >>> what's up   
   >   
   >    Please describe *exactly* what you're doing on which device (phone or   
   > laptop). Our crystal balls are in the shop this week.   
   >   
   >    *And* explain *what* you try to accomplish.   
   >   
   >    AFAIK, there's no 'export' of chatS (plural) in WhatsApp. Only of *a*   
   > chat (singular), i.e. the communication with *one* person (or group).   
   >   
   >    An export of a chat *can* be shared to Google Drive, but can be shared   
   > to any Share-able destination, for example e-mail.   
      
   If you do with files, it crashes if there are many files or too big. And   
   the resulting email does not have the files in context, like a properly   
   formatted html text.   
      
   Print to PDF possible?   
      
   >   
   >    Other than the above export of a single chat. there are:   
   >   
   > - You can *backup* chats (Settings -> Chats -> Chat backup), which is   
   >    backed up to Google Drive, but is 'invisible' in Google Drive and only   
   >    visible to a virgin WhatApp app on a new phone, i.e. this is a way to   
   >    get chats from an old phone to a new one.   
   >   
   > - There is also a way to *transfer* chats from an old phone to a new one   
   >    *without* going through Google Drive (Settings -> Chats -> Tranfer   
   >    chats).   
   >   
   > - And there is *archive* chats (Settings -> Chats -> Chat history ->   
   >    Archive all chats).   
   >   
   >    In all of this, the computer does not really get into the picture,   
   > unless you do a Share-type operation where the destination 'happens' to   
   > be the computer.   
      
   I just looked in the web app, nothing.   
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