Restore Messages: Nowhere to enter Pin

[HeyItsJono]

Caprine 2.60.3, Windows 11; on a fresh login, pressing the Restore Messages button successfully sends a code to my phone Messenger app, but doesn't pop up a box in Caprine for me to actually enter the code into, so I can't restore messages.

[Polda18]

Arch Linux user here. I'm using Windows 11 with an official Messenger app from MS Store on my main system. But I recently switched to Linux on my secondary laptop, and there's no official client for Linux. Caprine v2.60.1 doesn't even prompt me to enter my end to end encryption decipher PIN. It seems like Caprine wasn't updated to accomodate changes since Facebook enabled end to end encryption on Messenger. I'm left with half-empty conversations with messages up to before end to end encryption was introduced (conversations that started after e2ee introduction are completely empty). The app in its current state is unusable, and sadly there's no other alternative on Arch Linux.

[mquevill]

Arch Linux user here. I'm using Windows 11 with an official Messenger app from MS Store on my main system. But I recently switched to Linux on my secondary laptop, and there's no official client for Linux. Caprine v2.60.1 doesn't even prompt me to enter my end to end encryption decipher PIN. It seems like Caprine wasn't updated to accomodate changes since Facebook enabled end to end encryption on Messenger. I'm left with half-empty conversations with messages up to before end to end encryption was introduced (conversations that started after e2ee introduction are completely empty). The app in its current state is unusable, and sadly there's no other alternative on Arch Linux.

Please upgrade to v2.60.3, which should hopefully fix the issues you're having (which are separate from the original issue posted here).

[Polda18]

Arch Linux user here. I'm using Windows 11 with an official Messenger app from MS Store on my main system. But I recently switched to Linux on my secondary laptop, and there's no official client for Linux. Caprine v2.60.1 doesn't even prompt me to enter my end to end encryption decipher PIN. It seems like Caprine wasn't updated to accomodate changes since Facebook enabled end to end encryption on Messenger. I'm left with half-empty conversations with messages up to before end to end encryption was introduced (conversations that started after e2ee introduction are completely empty). The app in its current state is unusable, and sadly there's no other alternative on Arch Linux.

Please upgrade to v2.60.3, which should hopefully fix the issues you're having (which are separate from the original issue posted here).

I've installed it from Flathub using Arch Linux Discover app. The current version stated there is 2.60.1, does that mean Flathub has an outdated version?

Edit: Tried to update it using pacman, this is what it says:

$ sudo pacman -S caprine
[sudo] password for user: 
error: destination not found: caprine

Edit 2: Screenshot from Discover app:

[takaji10]

I'm having the same issue with 2.60.3. After installing fresh on Windows 11 and logging in, clicking on "restore now" doesn't do anything.

[RaspberryKitty1]

my issue #2265 Has a temp fix in it and is the root of this issue

[Polda18]

my issue #2265 Has a temp fix in it and is the root of this issue

This temp fix is really just like using hot glue on a gaping hole to patch it. Users shouldn't be required to use Dev Tools hack to fix an issue temporarily. From what I know, Caprine uses Electron, which uses Chromium engine to render the app. All it does is it accesses the Messenger website, it should work flawlessly in Chromium.

Not to mention that the Flathub package still isn't updated.

[Penworks]

Im keen to get this working but cannot restore messages since encryption (Windows 10, Caprine v 2.60.3). I REALLY do not want to use the Microsoft version which is basically a an Edge browser app. I loathe Edge. I loathe Microsoft.

[RaspberryKitty1]

Im keen to get this working but cannot restore messages since encryption (Windows 10, Caprine v 2.60.3). I REALLY do not want to use the Microsoft version which is basically a an Edge browser app. I loathe Edge. I loathe Microsoft.

Have you attempted the temp fix I provided in #2265

[Penworks]

thanks that worked. Not sure most users would be able to do that which is a shame, this is a tidy app.

[RaspberryKitty1]

thanks that worked. Not sure most users would be able to do that which is a shame, this is a tidy app.

Its definitely is not an ideal solution