[FEATURE]Swap sender and receiver

[bonoem]

Hello, I deleted a chat with my friend. Fortunately my friend still has the whole chat, so I would make the export with his backup.

I wanted to know if there was a trivial way to make his white and on the left, and mine green and on the right to explain it simply. So that even though I'm using his backup I will have my version of the chat.

[KnugiHK]

There is currently no option for this purpose. However, you may try to export the chat with the txt format then import it again:

wtsexporter --txt
# Then
wtsexporter -e # and use --assume-first-as-me if needed.

Alternatively, you can customize a template (based on the current one) to make it happen.

[bonoem]

Thank you for the response. I'll try, thought maybe there was a more trivial way that I missed.

By the way, since I don’t currently have an external hard drive and I’m about 100 GB short on my Mac for an iOS backup, is there a way to proceed without creating a full iOS backup?

[KnugiHK]

Thank you for the response. I'll try, thought maybe there was a more trivial way that I missed.

Try swapping {% if msg.from_me == true %} to {% if msg.from_me == false %} in the current template to see if that achieves what you want.

By the way, since I don’t currently have an external hard drive and I’m about 100 GB short on my Mac for an iOS backup, is there a way to proceed without creating a full iOS backup?

Using an E2E encrypted backup would likely be the best workaround for your Mac's space constraints. Unfortunately, the exporter doesn't support that yet because I haven’t had a sample backup to analyze. You can find the discussion on this in #84.