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• This is how to backup/export an entire chat transcript,pics,vids,etc. from Signal, archive it outside of signal & be able to review it later on without signal needed,etc.
  7 projects | /r/signal | 14 Nov 2022

  https://www.yoranbrondsema.com/post/the-guide-to-extracting-statistics-from-your-signal-conversations/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/irbxii/how_can_i_export_and_save_signal_chats/ https://rado0z.github.io/Decrypt_Android_Database http://jhnet.co.uk/articles/signal_backups https://pypi.org/project/signal2html/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/kx31hw/signalbackup_a_tool_to_save_your_signal/ https://github.com/manwefm/signal-backup https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools https://gitlab.com/splatops/cntn-signalbackup-tools https://github.com/xeals/signal-back https://github.com/pajowu/signal-backup-decode https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/cyyncx/application_to_open_signal_backups_on_windows/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/8mfawf/comment/e84rkia/ https://www.incredigeek.com/home/extract-encrypted-signal-backup/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/n3mwfx/backup_file/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/fxyowe/decrypting_backup_for_import_to_android_messages/ https://kabanashvili.com/blog/post/backup-and-decrypt-signal_1f91be7ok9jvmqrf

• Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2022

  > I'm confused at what is stopping you from doing this?

  As far as I know the backup is encrypted.

  > Are you not able to import these backups into the desktop client?

  No, the desktop client is not standalone, and ONLY syncs with the a phone to get content. Moreover, if you don't use the client for a period (2-3 weeks in my experience?) it de-syncs that desktop client. Re-connecting that desktop to your phone will only sync messages starting as-of the connection, so there's no way to get the desktop app to pull your whole history. (This is another gripe I have about their sacrifice of actual usability for security that only helps a few very specific use-cases.)

  You're probably rigth about hacking something together. Someone has created a library [0] allegedly for decoding the backup files. Friday night is D&D night though, so I haven't had the chance. :-)

  [0] https://github.com/pajowu/signal-backup-decode

• SMS Export is now live *in beta* in Android 5.52
  2 projects | /r/signal | 8 Oct 2022

  The backups are using protobuf, I use https://github.com/pajowu/signal-backup-decode to decode the backup file. You end up with a sqlite database and some files. Afterwards, I run queries via nodejs against sqlite to produce the HTML, that is a bit quick and dirty at the moment and not open source so far.

• Decrypt backup for court case
  3 projects | /r/signal | 11 Sep 2022

  You can also try https://github.com/pajowu/signal-backup-decode, the author is active (replied to issues 12 days ago). On the previous repository, the author appears to be inactive (I should have checked, my bad).

• Restoring a signal backup from a different number
  7 projects | /r/signal | 13 Jan 2022

  https://github.com/pajowu/signal-backup-decode (last updated march 2021)

• .backup file
  1 project | /r/signal | 2 May 2021

  I use signal-backup-decode to explore my backups, but that's a command line tool that decrypts the backup with the secret key and exports the actual content as a database and a set of files for images, attachments, etc.

• I need to get 800k messages from signal into plaintext on my computer and signal-back doesn't work, maybe because of the size or because it's been abandoned. What are my options?
  1 project | /r/signal | 20 Apr 2021

  I'm not sure I can help, but can you update your post with more info? Does the official backup give you an error? You should be able to back up and then copy the files to your computer and use a tool like this to decode into plain text.

• Max limit for plain text export?
  1 project | /r/signal | 2 Mar 2021

  That should work with signal. There are tools to decrypt the backup and access the database. For example this: https://github.com/pajowu/signal-backup-decode

• Adding Encrypted Group Calls To Signal
  1 project | /r/privacytoolsIO | 11 Jan 2021

  I have to agree here. At least on Android you can extract the database

  1 project | /r/privacytoolsIO | 11 Jan 2021

  Does not mean you can not extract the database. Given you have the password for it. Sadly only for Android so far it seems.

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