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Back up WhatsApp media and delete older files
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To remove old WhatsApp media from an Android phone connected by USB cable (with developer options enabled).

Use BetterAdbSync:

pip install BetterADBSync

Then run the following to back up to a folder in your home directory:

adbsync —show-progress pull sdcard/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media/ ~/Documents/WhatsApp\ Media/

Afterwards use adb shell then run the following in the shell on your Android to delete media files older than 180 days:

find sdcard/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp\ Images/ -type f -mtime +180 -delete
find sdcard/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp\ Video/ -type f -mtime +180 -delete
find sdcard/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp\ Documents/ -type f -mtime +180 -delete
exit

Modify -mtime +180 to change the age of the deleted files in days.

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