A very surprising Friday evening in the face of the order to block Telegram according to a complaint from Mediaset, Atresmedia and Movistar Plus and the spasm generated for thousands of users as well as for the companies and companies that use this chat application for their communications daily. In these next three days given to Telegram for his appeal, he It is best to make a copy of chats and contacts for what was going to happen.
At a time when the European Union, with the law on digital services, is exerting strong pressure on technology giants like Meta —to show the path they must follow and implies another logic about what chat apps or other platforms used daily by millions of people mean as an essential service to their life or professional development—
Santiago Pedraz, National Court game, yesterday Friday ordered the suspension of Telegram in Europe as a precautionary measure to do so as part of an investigation for an alleged crime of “continuous violation of intellectual property rights”, according to the complaint from Mediaset, Atresmedia and Movistar Plus.
Telegram has three days to appeal the decision and while you can make a copy of chats and contacts to protect them, since it can even be restored at any time. Better yet, Telegram has a very comprehensive and useful data export tool.
The chat app It will start downloading all the data the moment the process starts of copy, so what is recommended is do it from the desktop version so as not to consume the phone’s mobile data. This is done like this:
- In the Telegram app on desktopGo to settings in the menu button located at the top left.
- Then to Advanced.
- Scroll down almost to the end of the advanced settings Export Telegram data option is found
- A window will appear to activate the content you want to download or make a copy of it.
- What is provided by default remains enabled, such as account information, contact list, story archive and personal chats.
- Below appear the multimedia export settings, and here, being on the PC (still having plenty of free space on the hard drive), you can enable option for videos, voice messages and files; especially because they may contain content that you don’t want to miss.
- And above all, below, after the files, there is the possibility of configuring the size limit to increase it, if by chance larger videos have been shared (from the birthday of the small or of great length).
- Click export and the process will begin.
- The download path with the copy appears in this window below: Downloads\Telegram Desktop
- Once finished, a window will appear in summary form. In our case, this is a total copy of 237.1 MB.
There Download will depend on the number of chats, images and videos. In fact, if you return to a chat, a progress line and the type of data being uploaded appear at the top.
There is another important point in this experience of copying everything from Telegram and that is the link export_results.html which allows you to view the backup as if you were browsing a website where all the downloaded files are located. It is located in the same download folder in Downloads\Telegram Desktop. And it looks like this in the image below:
In any case, by browsing the folders downloaded in the backup copy on the PC, you will also find all the media, chats and contact list. A complex but perfect data copy experience to save everything generated in Telegram. Now let’s wait for what will happen in the coming days.