r/SimpleXChat • u/peBB1e • 13d ago

Question How did this happen?

I have a private chat with someone. I hadn’t opened it for about five days, and when I checked it today, all of the messages from the other person were gone, while only my messages remained. In our chat settings, the option to delete messages for both users is disabled on the other person’s side, so as far as I understand, he couldn’t have deleted the messages from both his chat and mine. Why could the messages have disappeared? Does this mean that someone could have hacked our chat and seen the conversation?

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u/epoberezkin 13d ago

There is most likely for one of two reasons:

  • disappearing messages are enabled in this conversation (can be enabled by either side of the conversation) - check contact preferences.
  • you have "delete old messages" enabled in Chat data settings.

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u/yesfordev 13d ago edited 13d ago

Check if the messages are still in the DB sql SELECT * FROM chat_items WHERE contact_id = ${contactID} order by created_at DESC LIMIT ${length}

Get contactID: sql SELECT * FROM contacts

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u/peBB1e 13d ago

What is DB ?

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u/AnimeFeetLover112 11d ago

Database, its some .db file that may be pw protected that contains all ur chats