Whatsapp is installed as Desktop app on several of my macs and on my iphone. When I delete a chat on one of those devices, it's not synced to the others. So each device contains different parts of the same chat, depending on when I deleted what and where.
From what I remember it clearly says "chat will be deleted on this device", ie. not automatically on the others.
As a result I have a chat on a macbook that no longer exists on any other device and I'd like to extract or back it up in text format, with media. How would I do this on the Desktop version?
I've poked around the developer tools and can grab media but not text. I've also tried drag-selecting all messages and copy pasting it in to a txt file but the chat is so long that it's really not convenient. Documentation seems to suggest nothing is stored locally but all is in the cloud (iCloud) but then why is the chat different on each device? Is there an sqlite file stored somewhere locally from which I could extract what I need?
What are my options?