Here's a PowerShell script to compare two Telegram exports and show any deleted media
I'm a huge data hoarder and hate storing stuff on the cloud so I regularly export my Telegram history, I got to thinking it'd be interesting to see if I could easily find any messages from previous exports that had since been deleted from current chats. I had a look at WinMerge which compares two directories but since Telegram exports media sequentially (Photo 1, Photo 2 etc.) none of the names match up and it's practically impossible to compare them.I'm fairly new to PowerShell so I thought I'd try and write something that compared two exports based on file hashes (which don't rely on the filename or date modified). It's a hilariously inefficient way of comparing two exports, but the result is a new folder with a copy of all the differences as well as a list of each media file saved to a text file.It's NOT recursive so you'd need to run this seperately for the "photos", "video_files" & voice_messages" folders. Just change the variables at the top and happy powershelling.

# Define the source folders, the differences are copied from oldexport into a directory of your choosing $oldexport = "C:\Users\yourusernamehere\Downloads\Telegram Desktop\exportfolder2\photos" $newexport = "C:\Users\yourusernamehere\Downloads\Telegram Desktop\exportfolder2\photos" $pathtosavedifferences = "D:\temp\video_files\" # Define any file exclusions $excluded = @("*thumb.jpg", "*.db") # Get hashes and paths of all files in the source directories and saves them to a CSV Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5 -Path (Get-ChildItem "$oldexport\*.*" -Exclude $excluded -Recurse -force) | export-csv $env:temp\hashes-oldexport.csv Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5 -Path (Get-ChildItem "$newexport\*.*" -Exclude $excluded -Recurse -force) | export-csv $env:temp\hashes-newexport.csv # Import the saved CSV files and skip the first row as that's just a weird heading which we don't need $File1 = Import-Csv -Path $env:temp\hashes-oldexport.csv | select -Skip 1 $File2 = Import-Csv -Path $env:temp\hashes-newexport.csv | select -Skip 1 #Compare both CSV files and save the differences to a new CSV file Compare-Object $File1 $File2 -Property Hash | Export-Csv -Path $env:temp\differences.csv -NoTypeInformation -Append # Retrieve the hashes from the differences CSV file $differences = Import-csv -Path $env:temp\differences.csv | select -ExpandProperty Hash # Use the different hashes to fetch the path of each different file, save it to a variable called "Paths" $Paths = Import-CSV $env:temp\hashes-oldexport.csv | select -Skip 1 | Where{$differences -match $_.Hash} | select -ExpandProperty Path # If the destination folder doesn't exist, create it if (!(Test-Path -path $pathtosavedifferences)) {New-Item $pathtosavedifferences -Type Directory} # Save differences to a text file in the destination folder $Paths | Out-File -FilePath "$pathtosavedifferences\Differences.txt" # Copy each different file to the destination folder foreach ($p in $paths) { $file = Split-Path $p -leaf Write-Host "Different file: $file" Copy-Item -Path "$oldexport\$file" -Destination "$pathtosavedifferences\$file" -Force } # Clean up and delete temporary files try { Remove-Item $env:temp\hashes-oldexport.csv Remove-Item $env:temp\hashes-newexport.csv Remove-Item $env:temp\differences.csv } catch { } 

Submitted October 13, 2021 at 11:41PM by lieutenantcigarette
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Botfather hasn't worked for weeks.
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 01:13AM by steezefries
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hello, sorry for bad englishlet’s say i have a telegram account with a specific phone number, let’s call it “phone number A”, and let’s say i have to switch my phone number to another one, “phone number B”.if i delete my telegram account linked to phone number A with the telegram web procedure, and then i give this phone number A to another person and then this person install telegram, can this person see old chats and groups and messages that I have personally sent BEFORE the account deleting, or does he start with a new fresh account without chats and groups and so all empty without being able to retrieve all the things sent before the deleting?

Submitted October 14, 2021 at 01:17AM by AnonimoPerOvviMotivi
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 06:23AM by Evening_Try7659
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 10:20AM by obbzart
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 10:10AM by Individual_Gene
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 01:47PM by RedDottos
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 03:38PM by Individual_Gene
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 05:04PM by CompleteLoss
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 05:02PM by Kevin_Sinister
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[Q] Secret Chats storage
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 05:48PM by GenericName9173
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Hey there.Been using Telegram since 2015.Last ...month or so? Telegram (Telegram Desktop 3.1.8 right now but I'm sure the previous update did it too) has been doing a thing where it will mark chats I haven't read as having been read. While I have the same account on my phone, I close Telegram there the second I don't need it.​I've witnessed 2 chats next to each other - I clicked on one to actually read it, and then a few seconds later, the unread chat below it marked itself as read! It wasn't a simoultaneous thing, if this helps any.The phone has Android 11 OS on it if that helps any - can give you exact device model if needed.Anyone else experience this lately? Finding - and often - messages that it *says* you read but you haven't read cuz it marks them that way?!

Submitted October 14, 2021 at 06:41PM by ChillNaga
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 I'm member of a particular telegram group as part of a project. The group always gets flooded with messages so I have turned notifications off for the group. However I wish to get notified when a few particular people messages on the group. Is there any bot or some other tools we can make use of for this? 

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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 06:21PM by Dgreenfox
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Submitted October 14, 2021 at 10:41PM by Cheeseoftheabyss
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Submitted October 15, 2021 at 12:42AM by AchwaqKhalid
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Submitted October 15, 2021 at 12:32AM by solenhav
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