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contact database not found - potential fix in description #76
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I currently don't have access to the latest iOS WhatsApp. Once it has been confirmed, I will make changes to the code. Thanks for your report and the potential fix anyway! |
@achalddave how did you know that this is the new db ? i cant find 016df2e52e5bfaa000f98a1dbe5c40cd6dc7f657 with the version 17.2.1 |
I'm sure there's a better way, but I went to the path to my Manifest.db, which was in a path like:
This printed a bunch of tables, and I looked for one which said |
This is the correct way to find a file inside an iOS backup. |
thank you for your reply. I just looked throu all files with .sqlite and i cant find any db with contacts. |
I get the same error "Contact database not found". Running the program with the default or the suggested fix results in the same error. I couldn't find any ContactsV2 or anything containing 'contacts' related to WhatsApp (just blockedContacts.dat). |
@Rerebla The file with blockedContacts.dat was the only one that appeared, but it used it and worked. After following the steps of searching it with sqlite3, the complete line is this: You only need the first part: The file to modify, like I have the installation of python in the default directory, the path is: My WhatsApp version is 23.23.79 |
@angelbanderasudg it's solved the issue but after I have another issue
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please merge @angelbanderasudg 's fix |
Thanks for this great tool! I received the following error when using this with the latest version of WhatsApp: "Contact database not found." I think the uuid(?) for the contacts db in whatsapp may have changed.
Changing this line:
WhatsApp-Chat-Exporter/Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter/utility.py
Line 299 in c27f5ee
from
to
fixed the issue for me. I'm not sure if this is a general fix, so I'm not submitting a PR, but opening this issue in case anyone else runs into it.
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