[toni-a]

I understand your frustration as I have already been through that, after years of use of windows phone Microsoft just dropped us, no more hardware or software updates and had to move all my database to Android that was a painful process however some apps helped a lot with automation of the process like copying SMS messages or whatsapp photos and chats.
Just found one for aperture that allows you to automatically migrate your database hope it works

https://apertureexporter.com