If you use te latest versions of WhatsApp Desktop, all your images, videos, audio and documents stay saved on your computer in an unecrypted folder, forever.

So much for end-to-end encryption.

WhatsApp stores all your shared files in a folder called "shared" in AppData > Local > Packages > (random numbers) WhatsApp Desktop > LocalState. They're perfectly searchable by Windows Search when searching for say .jpg, slowly wasting your hard drive space. If you use WhatsApp Desktop on a public or shared device, all your files will be visible even after logging off. Previous versions didn't do this.

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