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Merge an old WhatsApp database into your current one

An old phone, a WhatsApp mod you switched away from, or an adb backup leaves you with a msgstore.db full of history your current WhatsApp doesn't have. wakit copies it across, chat by chat, and skips everything you already have.

What you need

• A computer with wakit
• The old msgstore.db. Encrypted .crypt14 / .crypt15? Decrypt it with wakit crypt
• The current phone, rooted (to copy its database and put it back)

Steps

Prefer clicking? Run wakit gui (or double-click the app): the same steps are under Guides, with file pickers and Dry run / Apply buttons. Every command is a dry run until you add --apply.

1. Copy the current database

   $ wakit device pull --out phone/

2. Check both

   $ wakit doctor --path old/msgstore.db
   $ wakit doctor --path phone/msgstore.db

3. Dry run, then merge

   --fuzzy also skips messages that reached the current database another way (for example through an imported export) under a different id.

   $ wakit merge --old old/msgstore.db --new phone/msgstore.db --fuzzy
   $ wakit merge --old old/msgstore.db --new phone/msgstore.db --fuzzy --apply

4. Favourite stickers (optional)

   $ wakit stickers --db phone/stickers.db --from old/stickers.db --from-files old/files/Stickers --files-out Stickers --apply

5. Put it back

   $ wakit device install --db phone/msgstore.db

What carries over

Messages, media references, replies and quotes, reactions, mentions, links, polls, calls and chat settings. Media files themselves live in the phone's WhatsApp/Media folder, so copy that across too.

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