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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 22:40:34 JST kaia
   I'm too dumb to copy my mum's whatsapp chats form old to new mobile, because GrapheneOS won't allow the backup :cry_cirno:
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     Martina Neumayer (martinaneumayer@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:06:50 JST Martina Neumayer

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     @kaia You're using such privacy unfriendly, junk app like a WhatsApp on the privacy focused system? Seriously? What in the devil makes that an common sense? 🤔 🙄

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:06:50 JST kaia

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     • Martina Neumayer
     @MartinaNeumayer my mum needs it to talk to friends her age in Germany, since everyone is on there. I can't change that. I just hope that Graphene can sandbox it a bit, so Whatsapp cannot look into her other files
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:07:07 JST kaia

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     • Martina Neumayer
     @MartinaNeumayer I'm also not happy at all about this
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     aZa (aza1905@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:09:43 JST aZa

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     @kaia is the old phone an iPhone?

     If not you can export the backup as a file.
     Which should be importable. Or are you doing that already?

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:10:02 JST kaia

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     • aZa
     @aZa1905 yeah tried copying the backup files and it did not work
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:10:25 JST kaia

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     • aZa
     @aZa1905 now I'm trying to copy the entire app folder :IfritSweat:
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     aZa (aza1905@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:12:35 JST aZa

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     @kaia ahh, not sure if thats gonna work. But definitely worth a try!

     Hmm i never had problems with the backup file though.

     The new device has grapheneOS? Have you Turned on the exploit protection compatibility mode for whatsapp?

     And did you Grant it access to the filesystem - or at least the backup file?

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:12:58 JST kaia

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     • aZa
     @aZa1905 ooh, I think exploit protection might be it.
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     aZa (aza1905@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:15:10 JST aZa

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     @kaia i'm having issues with that often as well :D

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     Martina Neumayer (martinaneumayer@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:16:23 JST Martina Neumayer

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     @kaia You can sandboxit by yourself. There's an app which does it pretty well. I used to use it on the /eOS which is similar to the GOS. it was called AppCloner. Install desired app normally, run it only once just so without importing data. Then clone it and import backup into this cloned one. Should work fine. Use cloned app instead of the normal one, which can be removed now. AppCloner works for many different apps.

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:16:42 JST kaia

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     • Martina Neumayer
     @MartinaNeumayer thanks, will check it out!!
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 05:17:53 JST kaia

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     @Nicro @MartinaNeumayer
     I went full Google mode and allowed Google Drive backup, then WhatsApp access to everything. now it worked :BreezeHappy:
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     Nicro (nicro@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 05:17:55 JST Nicro

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     • Martina Neumayer
     @kaia @MartinaNeumayer I'm guessing you made a local backup in Whatsapp, then copied "/storage/emulated/0/Android/media/com.whatsapp/Whatsapp"
     And set up the new whatsapp?
     It doesn't store it in the usual "Android/data" folder.
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     Nicro (nicro@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:10:54 JST Nicro

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     @kaia I backup that folder using Syncthing and restored it multiple times by now on non-GAPPS, non-microg ROMs. WA works surprisingly well without Google.
     
     Glad to hear you got it solved. :akko_thumbup:
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