If the photos go to a private directory but you are now rooted you should be able to directly access that directory and copy the files out. This is assuming that they are stored as regular files in that directory instead of being solely in the sqlite db. Does that work?
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I can but then the photos are gonna be duplicates which would take up a lot of space
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That would have been a genius idea actually it would solve all of my problems. However, it seems like Android doesn't allow hard or soft links through SELinux. I tried doing it in termux in root mode but it told me "Function not implemented."
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I tried it on termux and it says "permission denied", and I have access to write on both folders on termux
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I think it's Android itself. I can only do symlinks in the /data partition not /storage/emulated according to this. And I tried it and it seems to be true.
` ~ $ pwd
/data/data/com.termux/files/home
~ $ touch ok
~ $ ln ok ok.ok
ln: failed to create hard link 'ok.ok' => 'ok': Permission denied
~ $ ln ok -s ok.ok
~ $ ls
ok ok.ok
~ $ cd /storage/emulated/0
.../emulated/0 $ touch ok
.../emulated/0 $ ln ok -s ok.ok
ln: failed to create symbolic link 'ok.ok': Permission denied
`
Why don't you just move the photos back?
Then I can't see them in the chat since they're in a different location.
WhatsApp expects to see your images in the images folder. Move the photos into that and they should be picked up. The folder should be
Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Images/
The private folder is a subfolder of WhatsApp Images, so you should just need to move them up one level.