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I have been particularly impressed with the device migration experience. I have an 18gb db, and even the time my device died I managed to get things over correc

• gojomo 11mo ago
  If the device with an 18GB message history was truly 'dead', how did you transfer the history over?
  • codedokode 11mo ago
    Why do you need a message history? The only use I can think of, if someone uses it against you in court. I don't remember looking up anything in history.
    • bjoli 11mo ago
      Because of family phonos shared between me an my siblings, and between me and my wife. All our communication is over signal, so it is a nice record to have.
    • gojomo 11mo ago
      I look up old iMessages, emails, group chat comments, and so forth constantly, often finding valuable gems of wit, reference-material, recommendations, or media that I dimly remember from years or even decades ago. Signal and other messaging apps offer a 'search' bar across all sessions & history, so I doubt I'm the only one. It's hard for me to imagine being so present-focused such a history wouldn't be personally useful. Or, so worried about "someone [using] it against [me] in court" that I'd need more than the occasional auto-expiration, and specifically my messenger "protecting" me with intermittently-enforced loss-of-histories (on just theft/loss/hard-failure of primary device).
    • e40 10mo ago
      I have messages from a deceased friend. I find it comforting to read them from time to time.
• eton_ 11mo ago
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