How to Restore Your Accidentally Deleted WhatsApp Messages

It’s really got to admit that WhatsApp is the revolutionary cross platform messenger of 21st century. However, as the huge amount of people use it worldwide, a few of them may sometimes have the problem of message recovery due to mistakenly deletion of their chats. Yes guys I also felt this issue yesterday and solved it out very easily.

As I told you that WhatsApp restored that backup of your chat conversation everyday in your device and the only reason to restore them is uninstalling and reinstalling the WhatsApp, so I’m going to tell you that how can you restore the last created backup to restore the messages you deleted (intentionally or unintentionally).

Warning: Here is a warning for you I think you should be aware of that before applying the changes. If you restore the last backup created by WhatsApp, all the chat conversations or messages you sent or received after that backup will be lost.

Simple steps for restoring current backup of your WhatsApp Chats are following:

• First of all, uninstall the WhatsApp messenger from your device. For Android phones, navigate to Settings > Applications > WhatsApp > Uninstall. and for Windows Phone long press on the icon, and select uninstall.
• Now, reboot your phone and reinstall the WhatsApp messenger from the relevant app store.
• If you have installed WhatsApp on your phone before, WhatsApp may prompt you “Would you like to restore your message history from backup?” Choose Restore (for Windows Phone choose YES) if you would like to restore your deleted messages as of the current backup.

That’s all, after applying these steps and restoring the backup you should see the your deleted chat messages in WhatsApp.

But, remember that by using the above procedure you can restore the last night backup only, and can’t restore messages deleted before last two, three or more days. So, what if you wanna restore the old backup of your WhatsApp messages? You can restore them too. 

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Yes friends, WhatsApp keeps up to 7 days worth backup files in your device so there is also a way to restore any of these older backups.

Recover Older WhatsApp Messages Deleted Mistakenly

Here’s how you can recover your deleted WhatsApp messages if they are older up to 7 days. May be this trick will work only for Android users.

Warning: Any new messages sent/received after a backup, and deleted before the next backup, cannot be restored. It means, for example if you restore the backup of 4 days ago, all the messages sent and received after that backup taken will not be restored.

Here’s the steps for restoring older WhatsApp messages deleted by you:

Go to your mobile phone’s file manager and navigate to WhatsApp > Databases.

Here you should pay a little attention that in the Databases folder, last 7 days backup along with the latest backup is restored and usually WhatsApp restores the latest backup (as of the above procedure). And the latest backup is saved as “msgstore.db.crypt7″ or “msgstore.db.crypt8″ and other older backups are saved as msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt7 or “msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt8″.

So, all you need to do is rename your current backup to “msgstore.db.crypt7.current” or “msgstore.db.crypt8.current” so that WhatsApp won’t consider it as a latest backup to restore and simultaneously rename any of the older backup (that you wanna restore) to the name of your latest backup i.e, “msgstore.db.crypt7″ or “msgstore.db.crypt8″ (depending on your file extension).

Finally, perform the same Uninstall – Reinstall procedure to restore backup as mentioned above and WhatsApp will restore that older backup you renamed as current backup. 

8 Best and Free Alternatives to Dropbox

Dropbox is a popular cloud based file hosting service that allows you to synchronize files among different devices. However, it has many more features but still there is nothing in the world which is pure ideal so many people might be feeling something or the other problem with Dropbox such as Dropbox is not open source, unable to host own server etc. and looking for the best alternative. For those people this article may be useful because I’ve listed a few best and free alternatives to Dropbox that may offer you the better services than Dropbox.

1. ownCloud

ownCloud may be proven a great alternative to Dropbox because it performs the same task just as Dropbox i.e “file hosting”. It is a self-hosted open source platform that gives you web services under your control because unlike Dropbox, you can install ownCloud Server on Windows and Linux operating systems.

This Dropbox alternative allows users to sync and share files, calendars, contacts, news/RSS,bookmarks, notes, music, pictures and much more across all your devices.

2. TeamDrive

TeamDrive is a German software and cloud service provider offering file synchronization, storage and sharing. Just like as Dropbox, its free version comes with 2 GB storage and if you want to book more space, only one member need to pay to allot more space.

TeamDrive client software can be downloaded for free on Windows, MAC and Linux. Its mobile apps are also available for Android and iOS that can be downloaded from the relevant app store.

3. Syncplicity

As a great Dropbox alternative, Syncplicity lets users store and sync files online between computers. It has a lifetime free plan that gives you 10 GB of storage to be utilized for free.

4. Microsoft OneDrive

OneDrive is a file hosting service that allows users to upload and sync files to a cloud storage and then access them from a Web browser or their local device.

It has changed its name multiple times as it was previously called as SkyDrive, Windows Live SkyDrive and Windows Live Folders. It has now four different plans along with a free one for individual, businesses and organizations. Its free plan offers 15 GB of free storage capacity.

5. SparkleShare

SparkleShare is completely free and open-source client software that provides cloud storage and file synchronization services.

Unlike Dropbox, SparkleShare is self hosted service that allows you to setup your own servers so you always keep control on you data.

6. Google Drive

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by the tech giant Google, which offers cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing to its users.

Google Drive gives you access to your work from anywhere, across your Mac, PC, mobile devices and on the web. You can simply download Drive on your Mac or PC to sync files to the cloud from your computer automatically Moreover, if you publicly share files on Google drive, they can be searched with web search engines.

However, Google Drive’s premium plan may be bit costlier for you, so you can use its free plan that is made up for individuals and for those who don’t need more than 15 GB of storage space.

7. CloudMe

CloudMe is a file storage service offers cloud storage, file synchronization and client software. You can download its client software on your MAC, Windows, Linux and mobile apps for Android and iOS devices.

CloudMe is not completely free but you can sign up for free plan for using up to 19 GB of free storage space and afterward if you need for space, you can go for a premium plan.

8. Box

Box is an online file sharing and personal cloud content management service for businesses. The company uses a freemium business model and provides up to 10 GB of free storage for personal accounts.