Thread: HOWTO: Importing SMS messages from Nokia phones to N900
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shamoni8 is offline shamoni8
2010-01-29 , 17:05
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#116
Originally Posted by ziller View Post
When you copy files to your device, they land in /home/user/MyDocs/. The file manager is limited to this folder (and its subfolders) and cannot see files or directories outside it. You can also not execute any binaries that are within /home/user/MyDocs, that is why you have to move them to your /home/user/ folder first.

In xterm:
Code:
cp /home/user/MyDocs/smsimporter /home/user/
cp /home/user/MyDocs/sms.csv /home/user/
chmod +x /home/user/smsimporter
cd /home/user/
run-standalone.sh ./smsimporter sms.csv

And no need to blame Nokia on this, they have nothing to do with the sms importing tools posted here - it's all a community effort
i know its the community effort, and its not very encouraging, to be honest.
it is a nokia fail cos it is a phone, after all. how about some back support with your own older phones?

also, i tried, and the very first command says (as before)
"cp: canntot stat '/home/user/MyDocs/smsimporter' : No such file or directory"
i assume it forgot to add exists, but u get my point.

here's what i did. i unrared the stuff in the first post, put it in the main directory, it didn't work (didn't try moving, to be honest)

the file is in documents now, and isn't working, still. will try to put it in the main folder and try too.
what i'm doing is putting just the files, and not the entire folder. dunno if that's what i'm supposed to do, since the instructions are vague, at best.