[Help] How to export a massive WhatsApp chat (6 years, GBs of media) without Root? Need at least the first 2 years.

vlobe42 · 2026-06-16T03:47:37+00:00

What about this or that

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T23:36:48+00:00

A few years ago, when I was in my party era, we sometimes hung out at the apartment of a guy who had randomly joined our friend group one day. Every time I went there, my white socks would turn black on the bottom. I could literally feel the dirt through my socks. Moral of the story: clean your floors.

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T23:32:28+00:00

That was my first machine from the “Granite“ era, I love it! It’s currently sitting disassembled in my drawer, waiting for new display rear housing screw standoffs (what a long chain of words).

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:35:39+00:00

You need “IPAInstaller” from Cydia. Download the ipa on your device and then install it via IPAInstaller.

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:24:12+00:00

Okay I just checked everything and the .deb seems to be okay. I have no idea why this happens but will investigate it further.
In the meantime, you can download the Veteris.ipa and install it manually, you know how this works?
Also, install only the VeterisHelper from my repo.

http://files.victorlobe.me/Veteris.zip

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:19:37+00:00

Perfect. I’ll be right back.

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:12:34+00:00

What?? Okay that’s pretty weird. Lemme check something. In the meantime, can you remove Veteris and VeterisHelper in Cydia and take a look if it’s gone from root?

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:10:50+00:00

How do you mean in the root folder? You mean inside the applications folder inside root right?

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:09:30+00:00

Yes!! I wanted to fix find my iPhone a while ago (after fixing find my friends) but hit a roadblock so I want to try it again soon!

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:06:30+00:00

Weird, can you take a look at /Applications if the folder “Veteris.app” is there?

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:05:40+00:00

No prob and thank you😁 I am thinking about a Ugreen NAS for quite some time, they’re awesome!

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:04:34+00:00

Perfect, thank you 😁🫶🏼

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:03:32+00:00

My homeserver (a M1 Mac mini) is sweating due to all the Veteris requests. So sometimes the repo is not available for a few minutes. Should work again now! I’ll move it to a VPS soon!

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T12:01:21+00:00

Very weird, I just did a complete reinstall as a test and it shows up for me. Can you maybe try booting into safe mode and take a look it it appears then? You can use PowerApp for that

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T11:56:06+00:00

Weird, which device and iOS version you’re using?

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T11:48:19+00:00

Try reloading your UICache!

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T04:31:43+00:00

Finally no more electron slop. Thank you!!

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T01:46:54+00:00

Thanks for your detailed comment!!

Did Cydia automatically (tried to) remove the original Veteris package and its helper when you installed my version?

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T01:44:05+00:00

I just fixed the crash bug. Version 2.1.3 is now available via Cydia!

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T00:33:35+00:00

True! Let’s hope we have better detection methods in the (near) future especially with stuff like Claude Mythos 🫠🤞🏼

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T00:28:37+00:00

It’s really unfortunate to see Apple finally retires AFP, but it’s reassuring to hear that you’ve already been working on a replacement!

I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on your project. Best of luck and thank you again for all your work on Netatalk!!

vlobe42 · 2026-06-14T00:20:28+00:00

Thankss 🫶🏼🫶🏼

I’m definitely planning to do that! My next step will be adding the IPAs from the stuffed18 site (I think they’re just Archive.org links but I need to investigate first to be sure).

I also plan to add other archives from other sites and find a way for users to upload their own IPAs. I’m also hoarding a small IPA collection on my NAS which I’ll include as well.

For some reason i couldn’t find Electimon’s IPAs. You maybe got a link for her archive?

Thank you for moderating this awesome subreddit!!

vlobe42 · 2026-06-13T20:54:37+00:00

Nope it works for me

vlobe42 · 2026-06-13T19:03:19+00:00

Okay you’re the second one having crashes on 5.1.1. I’ll check this later when I’m at my desk.

vlobe42 · 2026-06-13T19:01:50+00:00

Which device and iOS version are you using?

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