How to download and save WeChat data

This article shows you how to download and save all your WeChat information such as contacts, chats, moments, favorite. Here is how.

  1. In the WeChat Home page, tap Me.
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. Under Settings, tap Account Security.
  4. Under Account Security, tap More Settings.
  5. If you never verify your QQ or Email, select QQ or Email to Verified. If you do verify before, tap on Export Personal Data.
  6. No matter which options you select in step 5, you will wait for an email from WeChat to verify or send data to you. It may take 24 hours.
  7. This is the example of the Verify email. Click OK to verify.

8. After you receive the Personal data download email, click the link to download your WeChat data.

Note: If you don’t receive the verify email or personal data download email after 24 hours, you may check the Spam or Junk folder in your emailbox.

If you can’t find the email sent by WeChat, you have an option to request them to resend by taping Export Personal Data.

Tap the New request for personal data or Data request completed.

You should see this popup. Tap OK or Email not received?

Please view this step by step video:

Windows error: 0x800f081f

Situation: When running “DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth” for fixing Windows update problem, you may receive this error: 0x800f081f

C:\Users\administrator>DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.18362.900

Image Version: 10.0.18363.1016

[===========================84.9%================= ]
[==========================100.0%==========================]
Error: 0x800f081f

The source files could not be found.
Use the “Source” option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more information on specifying a source location, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=243077.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

Resolution: Download and install Windows update assistant.

Blue arrow icon on folders of Outlook

Situation: a user report his Outlook has blue arrow icon on some of folders looks like this.

Troubleshooting: in general, This blue double-ended or 2-way arrow icon means that the folder is part of a shared source you are connected to and thus not part of your own mailbox. A shared source could be a mailbox belonging to someone else, a Public Folder, an Internet Calendar or a SharePoint library.

Resolution 1: Right click on the folder. Go to Permissions, make sure Default and Anonymous are None meaning none other checked.

2. Disable and then re-enable Use Cached Exchange Mode by going to File>Account Settings>Change.

You need restart the Outlook whenever you make the change.

3. Run Outlook repair by going to File>Account Settings>Repair.

4. If you are running multiple Outlook on different computers. Then re-open them one by one.

installing Office 365 takes forever

Situation: we have a problem to install office. No matter we install it from office 365 website or Office Development Tool (ODT), it takes a long time, sometimes take 24 hours.

Troubleshooting: I find our firewall block office 365 IP which is located in Hong Kong. Please refer to this post:

How to check an IP Address location in Paloalto firewall?

If I add the IP address to the firewall, it jumps to another foreigner IP address which we block. Refer to this how to.

How to allow access foreign IP address in Palo Alto Firewall

If I add office.com to the URL allow policy. that doesn’t fix the problem.

Finally, we find the resolution from Microsoft:

We need to add the URL’s under Microsoft 365 common and office online. Under the article which I have shared add the URL’s with ID no 78.80,81,83,84,86,87,88,89. Also the port number 443 and 80. Please let me see if you can see changes after that.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/urls-and-ip-address-ranges?view=o365-worldwide

That fixes the problem.

Please view this step by step video:

ODT Error Code: 30029-1007 (0)

Situation: When the client tries to use Office Deployment Tool (ODT) to download and install Office 365, he gets this Error Code: 30029-1007 (0).

Troubleshooting: in most cases, this is configuration.xml file issue.

Case 1: incorrect configuration.xml file name. For example in this case, the configuration file should be configuration-office365-x86.xml, he types configuration-32bit.xml

Case 2: Missing some parameter or incorrect code. For example the configuration file missing

</Product>

</Add>

The correct configuration should be

 

Case 3: it could be the Product ID is incorrect. Please refer to this link: Product IDs that are supported by the Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run.

Veeam backup Error code: 0x8004103a

Situation: the failed with this message:

Error code: 0x8004103a
Cannot query class instance from enumerator object
[WMI] Failed get next object in collection.
Failed to convert snapshot to referencePoint snapshot path ‘\VMHOST03\root\virtualization\v2:Msvm_VirtualSystemSettingData.InstanceID=”Microsoft:68FDDFCA-049A-4721-B06F-AE4559F53DB3″‘.

Troubleshooting: Case 1: the VM server is installing the Windows update and restarting. It should work in next backup.

Case 2: Veeam Backup can’t connect the the VM server. Make sure the VM is up running or have a good connection.

Case 3: Make sure Remote Registry service is running. If not, start it.

Veeam Failed to index file system

Situation: The client use Veeam Agent Backup to do the files level backup. They get this error message: Failed to index file system.

Troubleshooting: Disabling “Enable guest file system indexing” should fix the problem. Alternatively, Install Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

FYI  ‘file system indexing’ is used for 1-click restore in Veeam Enterprise Manager, so if you don’t use Veeam Enterprise Manager you can leave this option disabled (unchecked).

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is another Veeam product that is a management and reporting component that allows you to manage multiple Veeam Backup & Replication servers from a single web console. For more information: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/em/introduction.html?ver=100

Here you can find more information about this option: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforwindows/userguide/indexing.html?ver=40

Problem to add LINE and Telegram group in WeChat

Situation: When attempting to add Telegram group or LINE group from WeChat, you can’t continue when tapping Join Group.

Cause: WeChat blocks to join other apps’ group.

Resolution 1: Tap on the setting 3 dots. Open with Browser to join it.

Resolution 2: Search the group name or user name on Telegram or LINE.

Resolution 3: Copy the link to a internet Browser to join the group.

Resolution 4: scan the QR Code.

Resolution 5: Send the link via text message or email.

Missing Apps after Windows update

Situation: You may not see some apps such as notepad, paint, WordPad after a Windows update.

Troubleshooting: Some people have reported they don’t have Notepad after Windows update KB4565503 or Windows 10 build 19041.388, version 2004.

To enable these apps, please follow these steps and we use Notepad as example.

  1. Open Settings by click Start>Settings.
  2. Go to Apps > Apps & features.
  3. Under Apps & Features, click on Manage optional features.
  4. Click on Add a feature.
  5. Select Notepad from the list of available features.
  6. Click on the Install button.

If you still don’t have Notepad, you create Notepad shortcut from C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe.

Please view this step by step video: