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That alone must be worth some serious money.
GoDaddy estimates it at $25,000
I would not even raise an eyebrow if there were offers out there for 10x that.
It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
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Re: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
#212It’s tedious, but all conversations can be reviewed by size and manually deleted. Far from ideal, but not quite limited to automatic Apple tools.
Re: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
#213Try Google Messages. How do I export them? There's no chat.db. It's impossible scrape, unless you wait(5) and scrollTo() etc. I've found no good solution for extracting/backing up Google Messages (outside of Google's dominion).
Re: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
#214Apple's chat.db has an esoteric schema owing to the fact they never designed it from the ground up and instead kept adding new columns and tables with each macOS release. This makes their queries super complicated with multiple joins. Once you have the schema figured out, it's dead easy to build a third-party client that works better than the official one. Even search works great with a simple LIKE query but Apple re…
I don't mean to be pessimistic , but I wonder how you're going to be anything but reactionary to apples changes to the database. I've written a similar (much simpler) version of what you're proposing to sell- the database queries are hysterical. I've been thinking about using the accessibility I framework to ETL the messages into Kinesis to facilitate event driven architecture. 'archived' Messages and attachments are…
How did you bridge FaceTime and VoIP?
Re: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
#215The contention that iMessage doesn't do a "space save" mode on device is wrong.
I have 75GB of messages in iCloud, I see 25GB on my 500GB Mac and 11GB on my 64GB iPhone.
Re: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
#216> Texts has integrations for all major messaging platforms...
Any plans to include phone calls, voice mails, and email too?
Future perfect:
RSS reader-like UI. Top level is Contacts. Including groups (w/ aliases). Drill down to see missives. Show read, unread, return receipt, etc. Sparklines representing activity.
Re: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
#217Apple's chat.db has an esoteric schema owing to the fact they never designed it from the ground up and instead kept adding new columns and tables with each macOS release. This makes their queries super complicated with multiple joins. Once you have the schema figured out, it's dead easy to build a third-party client that works better than the official one. Even search works great with a simple LIKE query but Apple re…
I modified this script to pull my entire db into a text file. https://github.com/michael-danello/iMessageWrapped EDIT: It is absurd Apple doesn't provide better message organization and UX/UI.
The fact so many people on this site can throw something functional together without much effort is even more disappointing apple doesn't do anything about it.
Re: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't mean to be pessimistic , but I wonder how you're going to be anything but reactionary to apples changes to the database. I've written a similar (much simpler) version of what you're proposing to sell- the database queries are hysterical. I've been thinking about using the accessibility I framework to ETL the messages into Kinesis to facilitate event driven architecture. 'archived' Messages and attachments are…
How did you bridge FaceTime and VoIP?
Matrix/Beeper?
Re: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
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That's an undocumented implementation detail. It might change without warning at any time. Are you seriously recommending this as a solution for users who want to be able to read past messages?
Your indignation is strange. Why would you not recommend it when there's no alternative?
His hacker ethos is broken recently.
Lighten up a little, GP.
Re: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
#220Why would anyone keep using iMessage under these circumstances? My chat messages take up less than 1% of my phone storage.