December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
8h 29m
English
As noted, video messages are not stored on the device. Luckily for us, they can be accessed via the internet. The first step is to verify that a video message was sent, by looking in the Messages table in the body_xml column. Next, note the convo_id field for the message:

Our video message is in convo_id 257.
Then, look in the Chats table for that convo_id in the conv_dbid column, and find the dbpath value. This will be the name of the conversation's backup file:

To find the backup file, look in files/<username>/chatsync ...
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