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restore an overwritten WhatsApp backup

restore an overwritten WhatsApp backup

Open your phone/sd storage in whichever you save the data(most probably you get that data in phone storage).

  • Under whatsapp goto database and you will get different backup files with different dates.(eg: msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12). More samples crypto,crgpt10
  • Delete the latest backup or the overwritten backup file which you don’t need it.
  • Make sure you see the old backup file date which you actually need it.
  • Once you delete the file which generally doesn’t open up when you click. But just delete and reinstall your whatsapp.
  • Follow the same procedure to restore the backup very carefully this time. Finally you will get restored the recent old backup, because you deleted the overwritten file.