This is a wip

iMessage-Backup

This application is intented to backup iMessage (and hopefully one day Android) chats.

Current steps for running:

1. Run idevicebackup2 to backup IOS device.
2. Grab files: Manifest.db, Addressbook.db (31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442) and SMS.db (3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28) from the backup
3. Name them: Manifest.db, Addressbook.db and chat.db.
4. Place these files in the data folder.
5. In initialDBSetup.ts alter the backupDir to point to your idevicebackup
6. run npm install in both the server and web folders
7. run nest start to start the backend server and npm run dev to start the frontend
8. navigate to localhost:3000/attachments/test to copy the chat data to the backup db
9. Upon completion navigate to localhost:5173/list to see chats.

This does not use the attributedBody but needs to, a plist parser must be added.

Notable Mention

• ReagentX's imessage-exporter as a point of reference for the plist and the underlying functions of iMessage