Unable to export: Failed to parse attachment row: incomplete input

[cancel-cloud]

Hello together,
i saw the similar issue is already open, but the case you're handeling over there is not helping me here.
Yes, i read The Readme and took some time tweaking with the arguments, but was't able to figure it out myself.

Thanks in advance for your support!

I'm running the exporter through brew, version 2.2.0.
If i run the command
imessage-exporter -f html -c clone -o ./Downloads/imessage-export/ -t "[email protected]"

the output:
Building cache... [1/4] Caching chats... [2/4] Caching chatrooms... [3/4] Caching participants... [4/4] Caching tapbacks... Cache built! Filtering for 1 handle across 4 chatrooms... Unable to export: Failed to parse attachment row: incomplete input

imessage-exporter -d

Building cache...
  [1/4] Caching chats...
  [2/4] Caching chatrooms...
  [3/4] Caching participants...
  [4/4] Caching tapbacks...
Cache built!

iMessage Database Diagnostics

Message diagnostic data:
    Total messages: 67064
    Messages not associated with a chat: 2231
Attachment diagnostic data:
    Total attachments: 13080
        Data referenced in table: 14.95 GB
        Data present on disk: 17.65 GB
    Missing files: 539 (4%)
        No path provided: 402
        No file located: 137
Global diagnostic data:
    Total database size: 137.39 MB
    Duplicated contacts: 30

Environment Diagnostics

Detected converters:
    Image converter: sips
    Audio converter: afconvert
    Video converter: ffmpeg
Done!

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what worked was:
imessage-exporter -f html -o ~/Users/cancelcloud/Downloads/imessage-export/ -t "@"
that generated the html files in the specific directory.

[ReagentX]

Can you check if this branch (diff) resolves the crash?

[cancel-cloud]

indeed it does work!
now i got a suprising thing:
the messages with my friend are all in the html file, but the date cut off at nov. 21 and between now and then we chatted a lot.
could you explain why that is so?
and the estimated folder size is not correct, the folder i got was 3 nearly 4 GB, that could be beacuse of the errors for the attachments?
Thanks again for checking!

Building cache...
  [1/4] Caching chats...
  [2/4] Caching chatrooms...
  [3/4] Caching participants...
  [4/4] Caching tapbacks...
Cache built!
Filtering for 1 handle across 4 chatrooms...
Estimated export size: 14.97 GB
Exporting to /Users/cancelcloud/Downloads/imessage-export/ as html...
⠒ [0s] [###>----------------] 2,178/14,267 (5,920.0123/s, ETA: 2s)                                                                                                                                                         Attachment not found at specified path: "/var/folders/8k/m3dtwcxj6zj1jwwgbh998tlh0000gn/T/com.apple.imagent/TemporaryItems/5B292314-5A98-4A2C-A419-4AD99AEBB5B8/3D47E73B-F88D-4377-9A30-8680523048D4.heic"
Attachment not found at specified path: "/var/folders/8k/m3dtwcxj6zj1jwwgbh998tlh0000gn/T/com.apple.imagent/TemporaryItems/5B292314-5A98-4A2C-A419-4AD99AEBB5B8/3D47E73B-F88D-4377-9A30-8680523048D4.heic"
⠐ [2s] [###################>] 13,761/14,267 (7,103.8279/s, ETA: 0s)                                                                                                                                                        Attachment not found at specified path: "/var/folders/8k/m3dtwcxj6zj1jwwgbh998tlh0000gn/T/com.apple.imagent/TemporaryItems/A09A6BE3-A7BB-47F9-AFC5-53D22DC8ED12/IMG_3856.jpeg"
  [2s] [####################] 14,267/14,267 (6,637.5316/s, ETA: 0s)                                                                                                                                                        Writing HTML footers...
Done!

[ReagentX]

If you export messages without the -t filter, do the messages show up in a different export file? It is possible that the handle association directs some of the messages to a different thread.

RE the estimated export size, see #235.