Location of text messages

[tmaromine]

I'm getting rid of my phone soon, and would like to know where my hundreds of texts are.

This would be too logical for Windows software, but might it be all the little files in Windows > Messaging ?

[Mark Crouch]

Not sure if those are the messages, but they're no use to any other (non-Windows Mobile) phone....

Why don't you use DotFred's PPCPimBackup tool (here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705)) to backup the SMS'es - then you can extract them (they're in a .CSV format) from the phone and save them on your PC.

Just a thought......

Mark.

[tmaromine]

Thanks for quick reply. I'll try that. Those little .MPBs do look very useless...

[flaviopac]

They are located into "cemail.vol".....

[mariner_heart]

if you are planning to buy a non WM phone i don't think you will be able to transfer the messages.

[tmaromine]

Where does that file reside ? It isn't in Windows...

[tmaromine]

if you are planning to buy a non WM phone i don't think you will be able to transfer the messages.

True, but what about being able to keep them on computer and be able to read them ?..

[scousemartin]

You can use jeyo mobile to transfer the text messages into outlook or use PPCPim backup and then extract the files inside which are csv files (like Mike crouch has already stated) the backup file can be copied to your pc and then extracted with winrar or winzip, its just a zip file anyway(just named differently) but if all you want is for them to be stored on the pc just use jeyo mobile and it will sync them to outlook for you and add an extra folder for them

[tmaromine]

While I'm a Mac user (yeah, I'll just get an iPhone someday), I do have an XP set up that I run, but my phone never connected to it. Nor would it connect to the Vista machine downstairs. So, connection-required actions just aren't feasible for me.

Back to PPCPim: I changed its backup file to a ZIP and got inside, but the different PIM files (tasks, messages...) are different .pb– files, where – is b or p or t... Changing them to .zip doesn't work. Is WinRAR supposed to decompress those as they are, .pb– ?

[scousemartin]

change the file extension to csv

[tmaromine]

Oh, those to CSV, ok. Thanks then.

[tmaromine]

What would open the CSV file ? Internet Explorer didn't.

[tmaromine]

Ok, got them open.

Talk about a mess of data ! But at least I can view them without Windows Mobile now. Thanks for the help.