Is there a way to migrate the DB to your version?
wormeyman opened this issue · comments
It's neat that they can run side by side but I don't want to have to go to the intel version for my message history.
I did it today by renaming ~/Library/Application Support/Signal
to ~/Library/Application Support/Signal Unofficial
while both apps are closed. Then open Signal Unofficial (which I then renamed to "Signal") and it should simply work as intended without having to relink the app or anything.
Disclaimer: No guarantee that it will work. This simply worked for me and I'm going to keep using this version because it starts 3-4x faster than the official client. Instead of renaming, you could duplicate the folder, then delete the old folder after you made sure it works.
Thanks I ended up doing it the other way around after you got me pointed in the right direction.
- Downloaded and installed latest
Signal Unofficial
- Navigated to
~/Library/Application Support/
- Duplicated the
Signal
folder - Renamed it to
Signal Unofficial
- Removed Signal official from my dock and swapped in the signal unofficial into my dock and i'm enjoying the improved speeds.
Possible one liner for future users:
mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal\ Unofficial ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal\ UnofficialBACKUP && cp -R -v ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal\ Unofficial
- This backups the signal unofficial folder
- Then it overwrites the signal unofficial folder with the signal folder.
Thanks for reporting back here! That looks like a good solution. I saw that someone made a script to automate this process, but the one-liner @wormeyman posted looks even simpler and more convenient 👍🏼
Should we add this to the readme or the wiki or anything?