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Restoring WhatsApp files timestamps after Google Drive restore
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| # when restoring WhatsApp in a new phone, all the timestamps of media files will be reset to today. | |
| # this script will restore the original modification time of the files | |
| cd WhatsApp/Media | |
| while read path; do | |
| f=$(basename "$path"); | |
| touch -m -d "${f:4:4}-${f:8:2}-${f:10:2}T12:00:00z" "${path}"; | |
| done < <(find . -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*/[[:alpha:]]{3}-[[:digit:]]{8}-.*") |
Hi,
It was a long time ago. But if I remember correctly, I copied the whole directory to my laptop, ran the script, and then copied it back to the Android phone using ADB.
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Hi @oripwk
Did you run this script on a mounted sd card?
I'm asking this because my WhatsApp folder is accessible on the phone only using either
adb shellor MTP. MTP does not support changing the file date and the shell on the phone is incompatible with the syntax of the script and does not have regex support forfind.