New chat data not being exported

[rothos]

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS and version: MacOS 14.6.1
• Terminal/shell used: Ghostty / zsh

Describe the bug

I updated to the latest version of signal-export and then exported my data. It all went fine, and I looked at my message data, and notice that it seems like the data cuts off a couple of weeks (ish?) in the past and the newest conversations and messages aren't exported.

For example, there is a new group chat that I started today. There are 10–20 messages in the chat. The chat didn't export at all. If I run sigexport -l, the name of the group chat does show up.

As another example, there is a person I'll call Lisa who I message sometimes. I noticed that the most recent messages, from today, didn't get exported, although older ones did. I tried running sigexport --chats Lisa testexport/ just to see, and indeed only older messages got exported.

I'm not sure what's wrong. I don't really know how this program works -- if there are any easy diagnostics or debugging things to run, let me know.

[aheilbut]

Can you confirm what version of signal-desktop you're running? This sounds similar to #165

You could try this branch: https://github.com/aheilbut/signal-export/tree/key_error_fix -- if that works I will make a PR here

[pro-sumer]

Also running into this.

• macOS Sequoia 15.3.1
• zsh 5.9 (arm-apple-darwin23.0.0)

Last messages seem to be from early February (2025).

I'm running Signal 7.42.0 on this Mac.

[rothos]

I'm running Signal Desktop 7.42.0 (for Apple Silicon).

You could try this branch: https://github.com/aheilbut/signal-export/tree/key_error_fix -- if that works I will make a PR here

@aheilbut I just ran an export after installing from that branch — it seems to work! Spot checks on the two problem chats in the OP show no problems. Thank you and nice work.