If you are looking for a way to backup your WhatsApp on your computer, below you will find the steps to make a backup of WhatsApp on the storage native and transfer the encrypted WhatsApp backup file to your computer.
Backup WhatsApp on Laptop
By default, WhatsApp is designed to backup in Google Drive, iCloud, and also on your phone's internal storage.
If your phone has a MicroSD card, WhatsApp will use the SD card to back up your data instead of using your phone's internal storage.
Therefore, the only method to backup WhatsApp on PC is to manually backup WhatsApp to your phone's native storage and transfer the backup file to PC.
1. Backup WhatsApp to native storage or SD card
The first step is to make a backup of WhatsApp on the SD card or internal storage of your phone Android.
1. OPEN WhatsApp on your mobile phone.
2. Toca 3 point menu and choose Parameters in the drop-down menu.
3. On the parameter display screen, go to Cats > Save the cat.
4.On the next screen, click Ir a to start the WhatsApp manual backup method on your phone.
Find the backup procedure to complete.
2. Copy the WhatsApp backup file to the laptop
This technique requires you to first bring the WhatsApp backup file to your computer by copying it to the WhatsApp external database folder.
Once the file is offered out of the folder databases from WhatsApp, you can choose it and copy it to your PC.
1. OPEN My Application Folder on your mobile phone (Request for registration data in the case of iPhone).
2. On the My Data screen, click SD card located in the “Native Storage” section.
3. Then navigate to WhatsApp > Databases Archive.
4. In the WhatsApp database folder, copy the latest WhatsApp backup file (msgstore.db.crypt12) that you just created (Undated file).
Observe: You can copy Crypt12 records data with datesif you love to keep old WhatsApp backups on your computer.
5. Find the external folder of WhatsApp databases and paste it msgstore.db.crypt12 Archive.
Observe: Paste the backup file to the root of the SD card or system storage.
6.Next, connect your phone to your computer.
7. On your PC, navigate to Mobile Phone > Map/System and duplicate msgstore.db.crypt12 on the desk.
The above file (msgstore.db.crypt12) contains the latest backup of your WhatsApp conversations in encrypted format.
Since the backup file is in an encrypted format, it cannot be used to view or access your WhatsApp messages.
However, the backup file can be used to restore WhatsApp conversations on your phone by transferring the file to your phone (storage or SD card) and reinstalling WhatsApp on it.
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