Telegram -many -workdir as stated above. To do that, we need special command line. If you want to recover that broken Telegram, the secret is to run it as a separate instance from another OS but with its own workdir, to write 'UNLOCK' into its own workdir. To put it simply, if that workdir says 'LOCK' then your Telegram is broken, if it says 'UNLOCK' then your Telegram is normal, in its own OS partition. If you have 2 OSes, then you have 2 different Telegram workdirs. If your Telegram executable file is located in directory ~/Downloads/Telegram/, then your workdir is located in directory ~/.TelegramDesktop/. Where? Yes, it is stored in that 'workdir'. So, see my case above, when power outage happened, that Telegram will lock itself, and this lock information is stored. If your condition is different, I'm sorry I do not know if you can perform the walkthrough at all.Įvery Telegram instance works with a work directory ('workdir'). It is the same as having one Telegram desktop and one Telegram mobile running simultaneously. In other words, although I do not have phone, I still have a spare normal Telegram instance that can run simultaneously with the broken one. My Telegram Desktop in the second OS is still normal, I can see all my chats & groups.My broken Telegram Desktop is in the first OS.My first OS is KDE Neon, my second OS is Trisquel GNU/Linux.

I have Telegram Desktop installed in all my OSes.I installed Telegram Desktop by official package from.I have 2 operating systems (dualboot) in 1 laptop.I have 1 phone but it's broken I could not use.( Left: broken Telegram from first OS running from command line by using its own workdir | Right: normal Telegram from second OS, Trisquel, receiving verification code)īefore doing walkthrough above, note carefully that my conditions are as below:

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