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Re: Computer messages backup

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Originally Posted by fhofer (Post 635076)

I guess the simplest workflow would be:
1. run glogarchive
2. click "Switch to Live-Database"
3. click "Export to CSV-file", file is saved under /home/User/MyDocs
4. connect the N900 to your PC in USB mode
5. using your PC, you can find the file in the root of the mounted N900 USB drive. The file has csv extension.
6. you can open the file directly in Excel or in OpenOffice (or any other program that can open it) or you can copy the file to your computer.

I did. it is good.
now how can I merge 2 files and import it again from the pc excel sheet to my n900.
I want to merge 2 messages backup in 1 and import it again to my n900. please help

Re: Help Exporting SMS from N900.

"find / -name output.html" and then voila ! :)

Re: Help Exporting SMS from N900.

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Originally Posted by hoppa123 (Post 635881)

"find / -name output.html" and then voila ! :)

merci beaucoup . oh lala:)
sorry can you give me more details?
Regards

Re: Computer messages backup

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Originally Posted by ali.harmouch (Post 635195)

I did. it is good.
now how can I merge 2 files and import it again from the pc excel sheet to my n900.
I want to merge 2 messages backup in 1 and import it again to my n900. please help

I am afraid that glogarchive is currently not capable of doing that. Maybe you can contact the author to add a feature to covert a csv back to N900 DB. But generally, having lots of messages in the phone is not that great idea, it makes the phone slow.

Re: Help Exporting SMS from N900.

Is there a way to convert the sms in csv_file in the PC Suite SMS format ?
So that we could import them in other Nokia phone.
Thanks for your answer.

Re: Help Exporting SMS from N900.

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Originally Posted by BabylonV2000 (Post 642220)

Is there a way to convert the sms in csv_file in the PC Suite SMS format ?
So that we could import them in other Nokia phone.
Thanks for your answer.

I am afraid that this is not possible -- at least there is no easy way that I am aware of. Maybe try transferring messages to another phone via Settings --> Transfer&sync, it could do, but I have never tried it.

Re: Help Exporting SMS from N900.

does anyone know how to export sms to pc and import it back to n900 ?

The Transfer&sync via setting does not allow transfer/sync of sms (just contacts and calender entries )

I would appreciate anyone's help regarding this matter . :)

Re: Export SMS from N900 ???

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Originally Posted by jvesiluoma (Post 548338)

Hi,

Maybe this helps.

Note: Make backups first. I will not take any responsibility if you brick your device. It's your own responsibility.

1. Open terminal

2. give following command:
sqlite3 -html /home/user/.rtcom-eventlogger/el.db "SELECT service_id,event_type_id,free_text, remote_uid FROM Events WHERE remote_uid='xxxxxxxxxxxx' order by start_time DESC;" > output.html

3. xxxxxxxxxxxx in above command is the phone number of the contact. For example you want to save conversations with the person that phone number is 1234567890 the command would be:
sqlite3 -html /home/user/.rtcom-eventlogger/el.db "SELECT service_id,event_type_id,free_text, remote_uid FROM Events WHERE remote_uid='1234567890' order by start_time DESC;" > output.html

Now you should have output.html file that has conversation in HTML format. Now you just need to transfer that file to your computer via USB for example.

You can see additional output modes by giving following command in terminal and replacing -html with something else like -csv or -column for example.
sqlite3 --help

Hope it helps.

Regards,
Jarkko

Hi Jarkko

This is awesome, any chance you can tell me how to organise it by date with a given phone number? The dates are pretty important for me.

Thanks
MM

Re: Help Exporting SMS from N900.

the times are in unix time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

don't remember in which columns though...

Re: Help Exporting SMS from N900.

Ok, how would one export the entire conversation between a number and myself using this command or some other? Any ideas?