Before WhatsApp, I cannot think of any app which have served so
many mobile users across the planet who could text and send files to
each other with so much of ease. WhatsApp is available for Android, iOS
and Windows Mobile platforms and allows you to stay in touch with almost
all your friends without paying anything to your service provider
(assuming most of your friends own a smartphone).
One
of the biggest privileges that we need from any messaging or emailing
service is whether it could let you recover any of your deleted
messages. And the fact that WhatsApp lets you recover deleted messages,
images and videos that have been shared does make it a pretty solid
app.
I am sure that most of the WhatsApp users
are not aware of the fact that this messaging service takes backup of
all the shared stuff every 24 hours and it keeps the backup files intact
for last 7 days. Yes, it's true. And there is a way which would let you
use those backup files to restore things.
So, below are two ways to recover lost Whatsapp data.
Method
1 This is a simple and pretty straightforward way to restore deleted
WhatsApp stuff. All you need to do is uninstall the app and install it
back. This would actually use all the backup files, and restore whatever
it can.
Method 2 This app stores its backup
files by the name, msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt. Below are the
locations where you can find these backup files for respective OS:
Android: /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases/msgstore.db.crypt iOS: net.whatsapp.WhatsApp/Documents/ChatStorage.sqlite
Assuming
that you have the backup file now, first thing that you need to do is
launch a web service, Recover Messages which would actually get you
going in this whole journey to recover stuff.
Click
on the Select SQLite File, choose the backup file, click on I Accept
(only after reading terms) and then on Scan button. It would take some
time, depending on backup file size and your internet speed, and would
list all the contents.
Now, click on the appropriate tab to recover the lost data.
Source: Dwarka Rao, ReviewUnit
