Tdesktop: Supergroup conversion breaks chat history export
Steps to reproduce
- Convert group with previous chat history to supergroup, do not clear chat
- Attempt to export entire chat history, any size and media type settings
Expected behaviour
The entire chat history should be exported. I can see messages before it was converted to a supergroup, even on a new device.
Actual behaviour
It only exports as far back as the supergroup conversion.
Configuration
Windows 10 Desktop Client
Version of Telegram Desktop:
1.5.11
Images of Issue:
Syntaxvgm
All 16 comments
Can confirm this bug on Linux Telegram Desktop 1.6.3. This is pretty sad, since I don't know any other way to export chat data into a readable HTML. Effectively, a big part of the data is locked up.
yhdh
on 15 Apr 2019
Still happens on tDesktop 1.7 on win10.
SvenErikLarsen
on 27 May 2019
Just noticed this issue as well, glad I did as I was cleaning out old chats and it would have sucked to not have seen this. Please fix!
hbh7
on 18 Jul 2019
I have checked and confirmed the issue. I had also tried exporting chat messages from way back till before the day the group was converted to be a supergroup, and I could not get the old data.
sokomo
on 24 Jul 2019
Still same issue on Telegram Desktop version 1.8.1 Windows 10
CharisAsgard
on 13 Aug 2019
Guess I'll +1 this. Didn't really realize what I was giving up by making this change.
ETA: Ubuntu 19.04. Desktop app 1.8.3.
CoeusCC
on 7 Sep 2019
Not sure this is really an "enhancement"... More like core functionality is broken. Perhaps especially so if you consider GDPR requirements for data exporting.
hbh7
on 9 Sep 2019
@hbh7 You can export all the data (from both parts of each supergroup) in Settings.
john-preston
on 9 Sep 2019
well, I guess I'll +1 for the "1 year anniversary" of this issue...
is there any other way to export an old group ?
or any tool to export or dump the data ?
ghost
on 21 Feb 2020
Also looking for a way to export a ton of data from a migrated group, best I am looking at so far is 100 images at a time...
geenkaas
on 16 Mar 2020
This still a bug on Mac too
mikedelcastillo
on 22 Mar 2020
Aokromes
on 31 Mar 2020
I'll +1 this.
dgarkavenko
on 12 May 2020
+1
StodaraHodan
on 27 May 2020
+1 version 2.1.2 on Ubuntu
cesarsicas
on 1 Jun 2020
@cesarsicas This one will be fixed in the next release, it is in the repository already.
john-preston
on 1 Jun 2020
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@cesarsicas This one will be fixed in the next release, it is in the repository already.