imessage-exporter

If you want something a bit more robust and cross-platform, including support for the undocumented TypedStream-stored text data, you can use my open source software: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter

The California Poppy release [0] of `imessage-exporter` is the biggest update yet. Most notably, it implements a novel `typedstream` deserializer [1], allowing it to understand the data stored in `NSAttributedString` binary data that is stored in the iMessage database. I've spent a long time reverse engineering nearly every aspect of Apple's iMessage SQLite tables to build this program. As far as I know, there are no other tools that support the full corpus of iMessage features [2], including edited messages, app messages, reactions, text range formatting, and threads. [0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/releases/tag/2... [1]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/latest/imessage_database/u... [2]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/2.0.1/imessage_database/me...

Awesome to see someone using my library [0] in the wild! Very cool use case. [0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter

Hey, this sounds like an interesting problem. I am always looking for edge cases to test, if you have time would you mind checking if https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter works for you and if it crashes in that spot?