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Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall

From Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall
Date 2021-01-14 13:40 +0000
Organization NOYB
Message-ID <rtpkgv.97o.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> (permalink)
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
[...]

> >>>   (As others also explained.) It contains *your* *data*. It's nobody's
> >> Okay, so I've got my data in an encrypted database. What can I do with
> >> it? It sure looks like nothing, without installing Whatsapp.
> > Well, you might want to install wasap again in some months time :-p
> 
> If Whatsapp were serious about it being "my" data, they'd have an export
> to "standard" format I could use. I know some web forums do that, and
> the "standard" format I've seen has been one or more CSV files wrapped
> with ZIP. Imgur's tool to download your content is (or was) the images
> you uploaded (but not necessarily the original file) in JPEG/PNG/GIF/MP4
> format wrapped in ZIP.

  WhatsApp can export, but AFAICT only one chat at a time, so not very
useful if you no longer want to use WhatsApp and have many chats.
AFAICT, in this context 'chat' is equivalent to contact/person, i.e. it
exports all messages exchanged with a certain contact/person.

<https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat-history>

(Aren't we lucky that we don't live in Germany! :-))

  N.B. I didn't try this. because I have no need, do not want to
lose/risk anything and have not set up any of the 'sharing' options
(AFAICT, despite what the FAQ implies, email is not the only option for
export).

  WhatsApp also has 'Archive all chats' (also under Settings -> Chats ->
Chat history), but that is not what you want/would_expect, because it
just *hides* chats.

  So yes, the 'export' facilities are rather thin.

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WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-12 20:27 +0000
  Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-12 22:09 +0100
    Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-12 21:19 +0000
      Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-12 22:24 +0100
        Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-12 22:59 +0000
          Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 16:09 +0100
          Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2021-01-13 15:32 +0000
            Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-13 17:07 +0000
              Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2021-01-13 18:36 +0000
                Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-13 19:47 +0000
            Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-13 20:03 +0000
              Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2021-01-13 20:28 +0000
              Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2021-01-13 21:29 +0100
              Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 23:03 +0100
                Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-13 22:37 +0000
                Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 23:55 +0100
                Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:40 +0000
        Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-12 23:02 +0000
          Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-13 10:11 +0000
            Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 16:10 +0100
              Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-13 17:15 +0000
                Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 23:05 +0100
  Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2021-01-13 14:59 +0000

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