Many of the users of WhatsApp live in fear of losing their conversations and photos Or they regret having deleted the content of a conversation in a moment of tension or ignorance. Well, there is a formula to recover old messages and photos of a conversation, although it is not a valid trick for all cases Keep reading if you are interested in knowing how to recover deleted messages and pictures on WhatsApp
The first thing is to take into account when the content that you now want to recover was received and when it was deleted. And it is that WhatsApp creates backup copies of conversations daily at02.00 in the morning All the content of the conversations that were before that time will be saved in Google Drive and in the backup files WhatsApp Security However, until a new copy is created again, the content of the day may be in danger
That is why, if a message or photo from the same day is deleted, it will have to be considered lost forever, without being able to recover it from any backup. However, if a content from one or more days ago is deleted, there is a way to recover it.This is simply restore a backup from one of the last seven days
To do this, all you have to do is connect your mobile (Android) to your computer using the cable and access the folder called WhatsApp Within this folder you have to look for the files collected in DataBases, which are neither more nor less than the backup copies made by WhatsApp on a daily basis. The eight files have a generic name “msgstore.db” accompanied byby a date in seven of them. This refers to the day they were created, collecting all the messages shared so far.
In this way, it is enough to extract all the files except the one with the specific date that you want to recover Of course, this will make the rest of the most current messages will be lost after recovery.A point to note before carrying out the following steps.
After leaving the desired file in the folder, the user just has to uninstall the application and reinstall it again in his terminal In the process configuration is Internet connection needed This will allow you to avoid restoring the last backup stored in Google Drive , and choose the following file stored within the terminal After finding said file, the user can click on the button Restore to carry out the process, which take several minutes depending on the number of messages and photos you have shared till the date.
In this way, the user will give a time jump to the past until the chosen day, being able to search his past conversations for thatmessage or picture you deletedOf course, as long as deleted it before yesterday (the last backup), and not before a week (first backup backup). A process that is not perfect, but it manages to maintain the privacy and security of WhatsApp and recover some messages or photos that may have been accidentally deleted.
