From the description it seems like it a bug. Also quite curious. He reported it Paolo Dal Checcocomputer forensic consultant. The process, in short, is this: drag a document on the WhatsApp app for computer and the document is simply deleted. It is not moved to the trash, it is deleted directly from the PC. The problem concerns theWhatsApp app on macOSthe operating system that manages Apple PCs. There doesn’t seem to be much difference between reports from users who work on laptops and those who they work on a fixed basis.
It’s a ride quite strange. And it is not very clear whether the bug concerns the operating system or directly theWhatsApp app. Once dragged, the document disappears from our PC but not from the WhatsApp conversation, it still remains in the chat and if necessary it can be recovered directly from the chat. Explains From Checco: “If you have sent documents in the last few days by dragging them to WhatsApp Desktop on Mac, I suggest you recover them from the chat itself, redownloading the sent document, because maybe you will realize later that you are missing it”.
Not only that. From the reports it appears that the same error also occurs with another method for sending documents. If you copy and paste the document from your desktop to the chat you should be faced with the same error. We specify it, from reporting by Dal Checco the problem only affects documents. Not photos and videos. It seems that i multimedia formats manage to save themselves: the documents that disappear when they are forwarded are PDF, ePub And docx. The only solution seems to be to attach them without dragging them and without copy-pasting: just click the + button and add the file we need.
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How to update apps and operating system
The WhatsApp desktop app is currently up to date 26.15.72. The last update was made two days ago. Nothing substantial: it was an update to “fix bugs, optimize performance and improve the experience”. The latest update of macOSApple’s PC operating system, is macOS 26 Tahoe in version 26.4.1. The advice is to update both the app and the operating system, in any case. Use apps or software not updated is never a good idea: but this could too don’t solve the problem.
