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Export iMessage data + run iMessage Diagnostics

18 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 5 stories, 13 comments · first 2023-01-10 · latest 2026-01-09

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  1. What's wrong with `imessage-exporter`? https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
  2. …don't, so all of my testing in the VSCode shell "hid" the bug that other shells exposed. [0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/issues/314#iss...
    comment by css · 2025-06-06 · in Too Many Open Files
  3. …proto files are [1] [2]. [0]: https://github.com/trymoose/handwriting2svg/blob/0eb56cf4582... [1]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/beeb853b2... [2]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/beeb853b2...
  4. …support for the undocumented TypedStream-stored text data, you can use my open source software: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
  5. …[2], including edited messages, app messages, reactions, text range formatting, and threads. [0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/releases/tag/2... [1]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/latest/imessage_database/u... [2]:…
  6. Awesome to see someone using my library [0] in the wild! Very cool use case. [0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
  7. …problem. I am always looking for edge cases to test, if you have time would you mind checking if https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter works for you and if it crashes in that spot?
  8. If you have a mac there’s an open source project that exports iMessage messages: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
    comment by d3nj4l · 2023-12-22 · in Beeper – Moving Forward
  9. I wrote a tool for this: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
  10. …a message. The content is stored in a binary blob in a different column, which I parse like this: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/c73bc4d66...
  11. The database file is the same across both platforms, you just need to choose the right path: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/c73bc4d66... You can get this file from an unencrypted iOS backup:…
  12. …lost unless you take extra steps. Messages: if you are comfortable with it, use imessage-exporter ( https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter ) on your Mac to export your messages to disk. Copy to new machine. Validate you got what you…
  13. If anyone ever wanted to do something similar for iMessage data, I built a similar tool for that: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter