How can I backup my messages in Chatty? [SMS/MMS]

Hardware Librem 5
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Hello everyone — I want to back up my text messages in Chatty for a new PureOS installation.

How do I do that? Thank you all so much for any help/support.

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There is something about this in the “backup and restore” section in the chatty readme file here:

It says:

Backup and Restore

Chatty stores data in the following locations:

  • ~/.purple - chat history and libpurple config
  • ~/.purple/chatty/db/chatty-history.db - XMPP, SMS and MMS chat history
  • ~/.purple/chatty/db/matrix.db - Matrix chat history and related data
  • ~/.local/share/chatty/ - Downloaded files and avatars are stored here
  • ~/.cache/chatty - Cached data and temporary files are stored here

Also, Matrix account secrets are stored with libsecret, those details can be retrieved using GNOME Passwords.

To backup, simply copy all of these locations. To restore, place all of the contents back in those respective folders.

If you want to modify/delete any of the above data, you should first close all running instance of chatty by running killall chatty multiple times until it says chatty: no process found.

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Isn’t there also ~/.mms that is somehow used for chatty too? Or is that a leftover from the early days?

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Right, there are settings for MMS is the ~/.mms/modemmanager/mms file, but that’s the only thing in the ~/.mms/ directory now it seems. (Contents of the MMS messages are not there I think.)

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