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Will it work when a server is free and the messages older than a few months are “hidden”? We have a free Slack server with 3k members, and buying some better l
by bartekpacia 2y ago
Will it work when a server is free and the messages older than a few months are “hidden”?
We have a free Slack server with 3k members, and buying some better license that’d let us export old messages is like $25k
- JasonSage 2y agoUp until recently at least, you could still download all messages on a free trial of a paid plan.
- noman-land 2y agoThe default export will download the text of all the messages, but it won't download any attached images (it will just have links to them). This tool doesn't export the whole history but it does export the attachments.
- paxys 2y agoIt's going to be a bit of a pain but what you can do is: 1. Disable all the users except one 2. Buy a license for the one remaining user 3. Export all your messages 4. Downgrade back to the free plan 5. Enable all the users again
- xnx 2y agoAlmost this exact sequence worked for me.
- bartekpacia 2y agoWow, that's the exact kind of hack I expected from HN :) thanks!
- xnx 2y agoI think it might! Despite the Slack interface not showing messages older than 30 days, the official Slack export (even on the free tier) exports all messages. Slackdump might have similar access (didn't try).
- noman-land 2y agoIt unfortunately does not. I just tried. It only has the last 90 days. You'll need to upgrade, export, then downgrade to get the full history plus the attachments.