I could manage to merge to an encrypted databases .
just give a brief two liner for my situation.
I had a situation where my db crypt files were not available and all I had wss the internal data msgstore.db located at
/data/data/com.WhatsApp/databases
the original file was 780mb I will just call it 780mb.db
when WhatsApp did a restore from Cloud something wrong happened and and I am missing about six months of data and the current
msgstore .db is just 380mb. call it 380mb
db
so the latest msgstore.db file is about 400 MB short and this maps to more than 6 months of chat history which is missing currently when WhatsApp messages are restored.
I followed the procedure to merge the two database files I have not followed any decrypting procedure because this is the un encrypted file
this included running the update on the New database files ( in sqllite database editor ) so the last message of the old one is in immediate precedence to messages in the new one.
new merged.db fiile was copied
to
/data/data/com.WhatsApp/databases
WhatsApp app was stopped and cache was flushed
on restarting it gave me a message there is a problem with your chat history don't worry we will restore it that is it refused to read the merged.db ( now.msgstore.db ) and it's simply renamed it as
now , msgstore.db. corrupt
now I repeated the same procedure in airplane mode and it it would read that file I could see my messages but WhatsApp would immediately crash
here is the crash information
it says database malformed image but I can open this database easily in my PC sqllite browser
I have tried this several times and I have on able to incorporate the data that is there in 780mb.db file to the current msgstore.db
any moolah on this ?
just give a brief two liner for my situation.
I had a situation where my db crypt files were not available and all I had wss the internal data msgstore.db located at
/data/data/com.WhatsApp/databases
the original file was 780mb I will just call it 780mb.db
when WhatsApp did a restore from Cloud something wrong happened and and I am missing about six months of data and the current
msgstore .db is just 380mb. call it 380mb
db
so the latest msgstore.db file is about 400 MB short and this maps to more than 6 months of chat history which is missing currently when WhatsApp messages are restored.
I followed the procedure to merge the two database files I have not followed any decrypting procedure because this is the un encrypted file
this included running the update on the New database files ( in sqllite database editor ) so the last message of the old one is in immediate precedence to messages in the new one.
new merged.db fiile was copied
to
/data/data/com.WhatsApp/databases
WhatsApp app was stopped and cache was flushed
on restarting it gave me a message there is a problem with your chat history don't worry we will restore it that is it refused to read the merged.db ( now.msgstore.db ) and it's simply renamed it as
now , msgstore.db. corrupt
now I repeated the same procedure in airplane mode and it it would read that file I could see my messages but WhatsApp would immediately crash
here is the crash information
it says database malformed image but I can open this database easily in my PC sqllite browser
I have tried this several times and I have on able to incorporate the data that is there in 780mb.db file to the current msgstore.db
any moolah on this ?