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[BUG] Error when extracting iPhone media from WhatsApp backup using wtsexporter #98

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damianjude opened this issue May 1, 2024 · 4 comments
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damianjude commented May 1, 2024

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  • WhatsApp version: 22.9.76 - iOS
  • Platform: Windows and macOS
  • Branch and version: main - 0.9.7
  • Python version: Python 3.12.3

If it is an error yield by Python, please also provide the traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\Scripts\wtsexporter.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\__main__.py", line 292, in main
    extract_iphone_media.extract_media(args.backup, identifiers, args.preserve_timestamp)
  File "C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\extract_iphone_media.py", line 85, in extract_media
    extract_encrypted(base_dir, password, identifiers, preserve_timestamp)
  File "C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\extract_iphone_media.py", line 23, in extract_encrypted
    backup.extract_file(
  File "C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\iphone_backup_decrypt\iphone_backup.py", line 272, in extract_file
    decrypted_data = self.extract_file_as_bytes(relative_path, domain)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\iphone_backup_decrypt\iphone_backup.py", line 249, in extract_file_as_bytes
    file_id, file_bplist = result
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: cannot unpack non-iterable NoneType object

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Describe the bug
The backup is old (from 2022), I've followed the instructions, including using the modified version of https://github.com/KnugiHK/iphone_backup_decrypt, however, it shows the same error both on macOS Sonoma and Windows 11.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

  1. pip install git+https://github.com/KnugiHK/iphone_backup_decrypt
  2. pip install whatsapp-chat-exporter
  3. wtsexporter -i -b "C:\Users\home\Desktop\00008030-00161D2634A2802E" -o "C:\Users\home\Desktop\WhatsApp"

Additional context
The backup is perfectly fine AFAIK and I've extracted photos from the backup using jsharkey13/iphone_backup_decrypt version 0.6.0

@damianjude damianjude changed the title [BUG] [BUG] Error when extracting iPhone media from WhatsApp backup using wtsexporter May 1, 2024
@KnugiHK KnugiHK added the bug Something isn't working label May 1, 2024
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KnugiHK commented May 1, 2024

It could be the domain or the relative path in the database file has been changed.

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I don't think that's the issue, here are the files in the directory:

Directory of C:\Users\home\Desktop\00008030-00161D2634A2802E

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KnugiHK commented May 2, 2024

I mean the data inside Manifest.db. You can try to investigate the database with DB Browser for SQLite.

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damianjude commented May 10, 2024

Sorry for the late reply, I tried opening it in DB Browser, it gives an error saying "file is not a database", which is quite weird considering that jsharkey13/iphone_backup_decrypt could do it. Any ideas on how to fix it? Or what is the error about?

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