Whatsapp question: How can I prevent video from deleted after sharing?

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joe tan
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Nov 24, 2014, 3:36:08 AM via Website

Scenario:
I have a few videos obtain from a friend "A" over whatsapp, I wanted to send them over to another friend "B" of mine.
Later, I then decided to delete the thread between me and Friend "B".

But I realize that by deleting that thread, I deleted the video which was sent to me by Friend "A", which I intend to keep.

Please advise if there is a way to prevent this.

Thank you.

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Lalit
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Nov 24, 2014, 7:26:40 AM via Website

Well @joe, what you can do is while you are deleting the video, a popup appears asking you to delete the media and if you look closely over the popup there's a option ticked
"Delete media from phone" , un tick that and now the video will only delete from whatsapp not from your device.

PS: Next time please ask question about whatsapp over our WhatsApp profile page instead of asking it over here ! :)

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joe tan
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Nov 24, 2014, 8:00:15 AM via Website

Hi john,

Noted. Next time I will post at the whatsapp page.

Just to let you know that I didn't receive the notification when I deleted the whatsapp thread.

Is there sometime I need to do to receive the pop out?

Thanks

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Lalit
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Nov 24, 2014, 8:10:10 AM via Website

Well, no you just don't need to do anything other than pressing the delete button at the top after selecting the videos (thinking) did you downloaded the video over your device ?? :?

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joe tan
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Nov 24, 2014, 8:26:15 AM via Website

The video is automatically downloaded onto my Samsung Galaxy via Whatsapp. I can share the video by pressing it in the thread to others or I can choose to share via the whatsapp video folder.

I'm thinking if I moved the videos from whatsapp video folder to movies folder , will it keep my videos if I delete those threads which consist the shared whatsapp videos.

Thanks

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Lalit
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Nov 24, 2014, 8:41:13 AM via Website

Yup ! that would also do the trick for you ! (cool) wait a sec I tried replicating the same over my device and actually guess what after moving the video to some different destination I didn't get the popup asking "Delete media from phone" ! So, I think that may be the issue why you aren't seeing that option. (thinking)

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