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@tasty-foods tasty-foods released this 24 Aug 12:36
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v1.2.0
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Free for Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Download WhatsBackUp-Setup-1.2.0.exe below (237 MB) and run it — no admin password, nothing to install first.

Windows will probably say "Windows protected your PC", because the installer isn't signed with a paid certificate. Click More info, then Run anyway. Your antivirus may also object once: the app carries its own copy of Chrome, which is how it talks to WhatsApp Web, and that looks odd to a scanner on sight.

Existing installations update themselves on the next restart.

New

Videos play in the gallery. A video shows a real frame instead of a grey box, and plays silently while the pointer rests on it. Quick play runs them full screen one after another — one flick per video, sound when you open one.

Fixed

  • Settings could be lost. A settings file that existed but couldn't be read for a moment was treated as no settings at all. That sent a configured machine back through first-run setup, and the next save wrote defaults over the media folder, the cloud folder and the stored AI key. Only a genuinely missing file counts as a first run now.
  • A missing drive claimed WhatsApp was broken. A video that downloaded fine but couldn't be written — a cloud folder that had unmounted — counted towards capture looks broken, WhatsApp may have changed, sending people to look for an update when they needed to reconnect a drive.
  • The log never rotated on Windows. The file was held open while being renamed, the rename failed silently, and once past the size limit the log reopened itself for every single line written.
  • Conversations hid messages. Paging through a chat used a bare timestamp as its place-marker while ordering by timestamp and id. WhatsApp stamps whole seconds, so messages sharing a second with a page boundary were unreachable — present in search and export, missing from the thread. Live updates dropped messages arriving in the second just polled.
  • Capture could fail silently. A media message that arrived with no data — the signature of WhatsApp renaming something — was skipped without counting as a failure, so the health warning never fired.
  • Sorting cost what it said. Gemini and GPT-5 had no listed price, so work was charged against the monthly cap at the dearest rate known: a full sort counted $6.53 against a $5 ceiling and stopped halfway, reporting money that was never spent. Real prices added; the same run now counts $0.51.
  • Restart handling in the desktop shell: a crash-restart timer could relaunch the engine during a migration, the window could get stuck on an error page if the tray was clicked before the engine was listening, and a port conflict popped a modal error every few seconds forever.
  • A killed file copy during migration was reported as success.

Also

NVIDIA's endpoint (build.nvidia.com) is available as an AI provider, and the first-run wizard has a Back button on every step.

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