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# Managing Your Data
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## Automatic message deletion
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Here you can choose to delete messages from your local chat database after a set period of time.
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**Please note**: This option does not delete messages for other users, only for you. This option is set independently for each chat profile.
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## Chat Database
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To open your chat database settings:
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- [Open the app settings](./app-settings.md#opening-the-app-settings).
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- Tap on "Database passphrase & export" button.
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### Database passphrase
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<img src="../../blog/images/20220928-passphrase.png" width="330">
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By default, database passphrase is random, you have to set it manually to be able to export it.
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### App data backup
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Here you can allow the system to back up app data, wherever it is configured. A database passphrase must be set to use this.
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### Export database
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Here you can export the chat database to a file.
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### Import database
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Here you can import the chat database from a file.
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### Delete database
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Here you can delete your chat database. WARNING: Results in a loss of all your SimpleX Chat data! Unless you have just exported the chat database.
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## Delete files and media
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<img src="../../blog/images/20220928-files-media.png" width="330">
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You can delete all sent and received files and media stored in the app via this option, without deleting the messages.
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