ian
March 6, 2026, 10:03am
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You can disable polling individual profiles on ArcaneChat, but not on Delta Chat so far. If you have only two profiles, Delta Chat supports selecting to enable only one of them, though:
On mobiles, you can untick a profile to stop polling it (for example in case of a host error). I could not find such an option on Desktop.
I have a feeling this makes it impossible to create another profile on a backup host while the primary is down and spinning in infinite loop. A workaround might be to export and delete each existing profile on the misbehaving host, and then import them back later, but I’m not sure whether this could carry any ill side effects.
Related:
Select a single destination profile and one or more source profiles
Backup everything
Copy contacts (or bulk export & import vcard as a separate feature)
Create private chats with the same contacts
Invite the destination profile to the same groups, preferably with a pasted explanation
Locally copy each message and attachment present in the chat history of the source profiles to the chat history of the destination
Display the difference in profile settings, including name, bio, avatar, cleanup i…
After backing up and migrating a profile to a new device, you can remove it from the old device and keep using it on the new one.