In the following practical tutorial and at the request of Bullfrag readers, I bring you a practical step-by-step tutorial in which I teach you how to make backup copies of WhatsApp chats to have them well stored and saved in a file text. TXT.
This will serve us to, apart from having a backup copy of only the conversations with our WhatsApp contacts, that is, the written text, it will also serve us to, for example, be able to inspect or even if necessary, print any chat that we consider appropriate.
Before starting with the simple steps to follow to get a backup copy of WhatsApp chats directly in a text file with a .txt extension, I must tell you that this does not replace in any case the manual backup of the entire content of our WhatsApp, much less the backup in the cloud that we have in Google Drive and that is the safest way to have all our WhatsApp safely and ready to restore on any Smartphone just by entering and confirming our number mobile phone.
This option to create a backup of our WhatsApp chat history is an option that not everyone knows or knows and that comes by default in the application’s own settings. With this, the only thing I want to tell you is that it is not necessary to resort to any third-party application to achieve it, first because most of them do not fulfill their mission and simply do not work, and second because it is very, very dangerous to install yourself. know which application we are going to have to give access to our WhatsApp account.
This backup copy of WhatsApp chats allows us to select a chat in question, (you have to choose the chats one by one), to create a backup as a .txt text file so that we can store it or save it where we at will or even print it out if necessary.
We have two options to select this backup of the chats of a WhatsApp conversation:
- Attaching the most recent multimedia files will allow us to save up to a maximum limit of 10,000 text messages.
- Without attaching multimedia files we can safeguard up to 40,000 text messages of the WhatsApp conversation or chat that we have selected.
The steps to follow to make this backup copy of WhatsApp chats are the following:
- We open the specific chat that we want to make the backup, this can be a specific contact or a group.
- We click on the Menu button of the application that as a general rule in Android is in the upper right part of the screen in the form of three dots and we click on the More option.
- Now we will only have to click on the Send Chat by mail option and select between one of the two options that I have indicated and explained in the previous section.
- We select between Attach files or Without files.
- Finally, we select the application that is of our choice to send and receive emails, in my case in particular Gmail and we send it directly to our own email address.
With this, we will already have at our disposal the backup copy of that specific WhatsApp chat, which we will have in .txt format to be able to open it with any text editing application.
That you know that those of you who have selected the option to attach files are very likely that due to the size of the file generated we are prevented from sending through email management applications such as Gmail that has a maximum limit for the size of attachments
Likewise, you also have to take into account that the contacts that we have shared in this Chat history will also be attached to these backups. In other words, in addition to generating a .txt file with all the conversations with the aforementioned contact, additional files will also be generated in .vcf format for each contact that we have shared in the aforementioned chat to be backed up.