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Q. The Messages Saver for Facebook extension does not save pictures or emoji. Is it possible to make it save them?
The Messages Saver for Facebook extension allows you to save chats in 4 possible ways: as a plain text file, as a stand-alone .html file (with pictures and emoticons displayed), as a .csv file and as an archive (zip file). To change the settings you need to right-click the extension icon after you have installed the extension, and choose the Options menu item. This will bring you to the window where you can change the settings.
Q. Where can I find the saved file?
Open your Chrome browser, go to Settings -> Downloads. Download location shows the path where all your downloaded files are saved.
Change the encoding of the file. Open it in the Chrome browser, go to Settings -> More Tools -> Encoding, choose UTF-8. Check the ‘Auto detect’ option.
No, they do not. Neither of the extensions will ever ask you for any credentials or other sensitive information and, consequently, cannot get access to any private data.
If a chat is really big, Facebook might stop returning the data at some point due to a big amount of requests being sent, and returns a ‘temporary error’ instead. In this case, an incomplete chat will be downloaded. In general, you are advised to save your chat in parts by experimenting with the Date fields of the pop-up window.
Some time ago Facebook started blocking requests coming from the Messages Saver for Facebook extension. To get around this, the extension now sends requests at irregular intervals, which slowed down the process of download. You can try saving big chats in parts by fiddling with the Date fields.
When you save your chat as a stand-alone html file (with the ‘ Save pictures, emoticons and other files locally ‘ field unchecked) all your pictures and other files can be seen in the file, but they are still kept on Facebook servers. The links to the pictures that are kept there have special tokens which expire after some time, and then the link can no longer be seen.
You have to either save the chat again or, if you really want to keep all your chat files on your computer, save the chat as a zip-file. For this check the ‘ Save pictures, emoticons and other files locally ‘ field. The links to the pictures in your chat will then point to the actually saved pictures in the created zip-file, and not to the ones kept in Facebook servers.
No, the extension can’t change anything at all with your chats other than saving them. All your chats are kept at Facebook servers, and it’s a Facebook glitch if something isn’t shown. I personally experienced it on a couple of my chats, when they were not shown in full to me. After some time all went back to normal.
Yes, you can go on chatting in any chats while the extension is downloading the chat you need, this should not prevent the normal download process.
Yes, it is possible. First, make sure you’re using the latest version of the Messages Saver for Facebook extension. If you want to save archived chats or message requests you should go to the Options of the extension, and choose the corresponding folder there. Press Submit to save your changes.
This is a glitch of the extension that is cured by simple toggling between chats.
Just reload the WhatsApp web page and all should start working properly.