The reason is, WhatsApp has Notabe as the most popular Messenger application with the largest number of users in Indonesia.
With WA you can exchange news via text messages, long distance calls, and face-to-face calls and between users can send files to each other, or media in several formats.
Being one of the most popular Messenger applications, of course there are many discussions and ways related to using the WhatsApp application itself.
For example, recently what Smartphone users are asking is how to download files on WA that have been deleted for a long time.
How to Download Files in Old WA
1. How to Download Files in Old WA Via File Manager
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| How to Download Files in Old WA Via File Manager |
Expired files in WA occur if you have never downloaded the file before but accidentally deleted it in the Gallery.
At that time, you never open or download it and then realize that the video file or document is important and just download it.
But it turns out that you failed to download the file from WA, and this is where you start asking how to download expired files on WhatsApp?
Here’s how to download files on WA that have been deleted for a long time, namely using the file manager, see the steps.
- First, please open the File Manager application.
- Next select “Internal Storage”.
- Then go to WA Folder > Media Folder.
- For images, you can search for files found in the WhatsApp Images folder.
- Meanwhile, videos are in “WhatsApp Video” and Documents are in “WhatsApp Documents”.
Please search carefully one by one, maybe you can find expired files that are actually there.
2. How to Download Files in Old WA
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| How to Download Files in Old WA |
Downloading expired files on Whatsapp of course requires several steps to recover them.
For those of you who want to know how, please see how to download files on WA which has been around for a long time in the tutorial below.
- First, please open “File Manager”.
- If there is no File Manager application, you can download it on the Google PlayStore, Click Here.
- Once the File Manager opens you can click “Internal Storage”.
- Then select “WhatsApp Folder” and find the “Databases” folder.
- Then also find the file with the name .crypt8 or .crypt14 at the end.
- After that, connect the USB cable to the PC or Computer/Laptop to connect the mobile with the Desktop device because files can only be recovered if using a Computer.
- Once connected to the computer, you can open the “Browser”.
- We recommend using Extensions from Chrome Browser for a fast and safe process.
- Please also visit the following link to go to the Message and File Recovery page on WA, Click here.
- Then press the file button and upload the .crypt8 or .crypt14 data file earlier.
- Finally, wait for the process until the results of the recovered files come out.
3. How to Download Files on Old WA by Asking Sender for Help
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| How to Download Files on Old WA by Asking Sender for Help |
Without further ado, this old tutorial or how to download files on WA is the one that makes the most sense and is easy to digest, here are the steps.
- Please find the file that you have downloaded.
- Next find the sender’s Contacts.
- Send a message to the sender of the file and ask to send the file again.
- After receiving a response, the sender will respond well.
- Well, now you can download the file again.
4. How to Download Files on the Latest WA for a long time
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| How to Download Files on the Latest WA for a long time |
How to download files on WA, which has been around for a long time, can be done for those of you who don’t know how to do it, here are the steps.
- First find the expired file.
- Then send the file to another recipient by pressing the button next to the file.
- Open the chat room of the recipient.
- Then ask him to download and send the file to you.
- Finished!
The final word
For those of you who often delete files, images, videos, or without sorting them first, then you can try some of the methods above.
You can try all the tutorials that we shared above to choose and determine the best trick that suits you.
Not all of these tricks work, that’s why it’s very important that you try all of them to determine the best way.
That’s all our discussion in this article about how to download files on old WA. Thank you and hopefully useful.
