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Suggestion

See original GitHub issue

I see some of your programming constraints make in interrupt prematurely.

Like an instance where it could not find WhatsApp directory and interrupts. What I suggest you do is in your init.py or main.py you first write some checks and if required make those directories.

import os
if(not os.path.isdir('WhatsApp'):
   os.mkdir('WhatsApp')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\Yuvraj\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts\wtsexporter.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\__main__.py", line 122, in main
    vcard(db, data)
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\extract.py", line 244, in vcard
    os.mkdir(base)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'WhatsApp/vCards'

Avoid permission denied: You can wait for some time before deleting the folder so that it gets free from any process using it.

import time
time.sleep(3)

Gathering vCards...(67/67)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\shutil.py", line 806, in move
    os.rename(src, real_dst)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'WhatsApp' -> 'result/WhatsApp'

Still better for any non crucial operation like deleting temp folders do that in

try:
   # to delete folder
except:
   pass

because your code cascades into being totally dead on an exception

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\shutil.py", line 806, in move
    os.rename(src, real_dst)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'WhatsApp' -> 'result/WhatsApp'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\Yuvraj\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts\wtsexporter.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\__main__.py", line 126, in main
    shutil.move(options.media, f"{options.output}/")
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\shutil.py", line 818, in move
    rmtree(src)
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\shutil.py", line 740, in rmtree
    return _rmtree_unsafe(path, onerror)
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\shutil.py", line 622, in _rmtree_unsafe
    onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
  File "c:\users\yuvraj\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\shutil.py", line 620, in _rmtree_unsafe
    os.rmdir(path)
OSError: [WinError 145] The directory is not empty: 'WhatsApp'