XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In comp.mobile.android, on Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:43:56 +0100, "Carlos   
   E.R."  wrote:   
      
   >On 2026-01-26 22:50, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:   
   >> On 1/26/2026 10:27 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>> On 2026-01-26 22:07, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> A few days ago I exported a >500 MByte chat. I saved it locally on the   
   >>>> phone and then transferred the zip file to the PC with ftp (using   
   >>>> "primitive ftpd" on the phone and "Windows Explorer" on the PC) . I   
   >>   
   >>> What format has the chat?   
   >>   
   >> The chat is exported as a zip file. It contains the chat as .txt   
   >> file (utf-8 including smileys.) and all pictures, videos, pdfs etc.   
   >> in the original format.   
   >   
   >That is useless crap. Now I remember, I tried that one years ago.   
      
   It certainly is disappointing. Whatsapp could have done a lot better.   
      
   I mentioned the one that would not export.  Did i get around to telling   
   you all -- no I didn't; -- that I found you could forward the chat, but   
   you have to tap on each little piece individually.  I stopped looking at   
   the top line, and didn't notice when the Forward option disappeared and   
   only the Delete option was left.   
      
   I was up to 600 items, and I taped 200 of them again trying to get the   
   Forward icon back   
      
   At that pointm it seemed just as efficient to stop and start over.   
      
   I eventually figured out that if you try to forward an item where   
   someone called but you didn't answer, it removes the Forward option and   
   leaves only delete.  The same thing happens if you try to forward a line   
   which has a [deleted comment] or something like that. I was tapping as   
   fast as I could and I tapped some of those even after I knew they were   
   bad but I paid closer attention to the top line and went back and   
   untapped them.   
      
   All in all there were 1500 parts to the chat, plus the 6oo + 200 in the   
   first attempt, which makes 2300 taps.  Took me well over an hour, I   
   think.   
      
   The result has even a worse format, in that the time for every comment   
   is the time I did the fowarding and there is no date at all.  What's app   
   could have done better.   
      
   Thwn I deleted that I had forwarded anything, and I deleted that I had   
   exported everything, and I deleted the two files that I uploaded to   
   google Drive, which btw, appeared on his phone's google drive but not on   
   his laptop's google drive.  I guess he has two but I don't know how that   
   can be.  I know he uses the one in his laptop beccuase there 50 or so   
   interesting files, unrelated to scams.   But the one on the phone was   
   empty after I deleted the two I put there.   
   >   
   >The message part are the plain text messages, without the emoticons, and   
   >without the files inserted in the text in their context. Like a PDF file   
   >would be.   
      
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