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wwwjfy	2012-04-12 , 01:58
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Originally Posted by thedead1440

hi how can we merge two or more files from the backup.

during the backup i rec'd the error "the background thread has stalled" due to which the newer backups are smaller file sizes than the first backup. the new backups contain new smses and less than 1/3 of the old smses. so i want to merge these files and import them back.

thanks for your help

If no multiline sms, you can easily run in terminal

cat 1st 2nd | sort -u -k3 -t, > new

to merge two files. (-u is for unique, -k3 is for sorting by date, -t, is for separator ,)

with multiline sms, it's much easier if you copy the files to your windows/linux/mac to process. I can provide a python script if you need

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