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Option to SAVE all Chats LOCALLY so that all not lost if server goes down dies gets hacked etc
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- TypeScript
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Description
### Your use case
#### What would you like to do?
Apologies if somehow this is already possible through some option in DESKTOP Element that I wasn't aware of, if so please let me know how to enable Local Saving of all conversations and attachments etc.
#### Why would you like to do it?
I use DESKTOP Element and would like to not worry about losing data/rooms/conversations if the server goes down, crashes, or gets hacked, wiped or anything like that. I want the CLIENT Desktop Element app to always SAVE everything Locally.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
I would like a Global Option to "Save All Locally", and/or perhaps "per room" setting as well.
### Have you considered any alternatives?
I could not see any better other alternatives to saving all locally on Desktop Element.
### Additional context
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue does not identify any files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the desktop client's conversation and attachment persistence code, then determine the scope of a global or per-room local-save option and define completion around preserving all requested chats and attachments through server loss.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- data, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100