I am an android device with some conversations of wechat. I would like to do a backup of this conversations, so I am using the windows 10 application of we chat, that it seems it is the way to do the backup.
The problem is that I don't know where is stored the backups.
I have read this question: Where are the WeChat chat logs stored?, but searching for this folder or database .db or any other of the files that is said in this answer, I can´t find it.
I am using the version 2.6.3.300 of wechat in windows.
Thanks.
EDIT: I added the screen of settings. Because I don't have the backup settings available.
My screen is this:
3 Answers
The backups are not on the PC because you have not transferred them there (yet). Here is how to transfer them to the PC (according to the documentation):
Open WeChat on your PC. The app is found on
Click ☰ at the bottom-left corner of the WeChat window
Click Backup and Restore and the appropriate screen will appear
Open WeChat on your phone while connected to the same WiFi network as the PC
Click Back up on PC on the computer. The "Back up chat history to computer" screen will appear on the phone
Tap Backup All on the phone and wait for the backup to complete. If you'd prefer to select specific chats instead, tap Select Chat History, tap the chats to back up, then tap Backup.
For the original non-UWP version from the Windows Store, it is stored in:
C:\Users\username1\AppData\Local\Packages\TencentWeChatLimited.forWindows10_sdtnhv12zgd7a\LocalCache\Roaming\Tencent\WeChatAppStore\WeChatAppStore Files\username2\BackupFilesusername1 is your Windows account and username2 is your WeChat account name. Fairly easy finding it thanks to "Everything" by voidtools. Don't know if it's unique or different after "TencentWeChatLimited.forWindows10_", but this is the path on my Windows 10 64-bit machine.
I found the path on my windows 10 x64 which is C:\Users\ user01 \AppData\Local\Packages\TencentWeChatLimited.forWindows10_sdtnhv12zgd7a\LocalCache\Roaming\Tencent\WeChatAppStore\WeChatAppStore Files\ USERNAME \BackupFiles\
ps: 1. You may need to check the "Hidden items" under the View tab of the File Explorer to allow you can see the AppData folder with Hidden Attributes. 2.Replace the user01 with your windows account. 3.Replace the USERNAME with your WeChat account.