Can I get my SMS messages back?

[JB]

I had a Sony Ericsson mobile and used My Phone Explorer to save the SMS messages to my laptop. I was pleased to see that the phone didn't have to be connected to the laptop for the messages to show - they seemed to be saved to the MPE program on my laptop and available to view whenever I wanted.

Since then, I've changed my mobile - and got a new laptop. I had backed up the contents of my old laptop and transferred them to my new laptop. But I can't find the SMS messages I saved. Were they not transferred with everything else - have they been lost forever? Or are they hiding somewhere in the 'Windows.old' folder on my new laptop?

[FJ]

Hmm - if you did not change the database-location then the whole data should be saved in C:\Documents and settings\<user>\Application Data\MyPhoneExplorer

If you still have your old Laptop then run MPE there, select Extras Create backup and on the new Laptop restore backup.

[JB]

Hmm - if you did not change the database-location then the whole data should be saved in C:\Documents and settings\<user>\Application Data\MyPhoneExplorer

If you still have your old Laptop then run MPE there, select Extras Create backup and on the new Laptop restore backup.

Thanks for your reply. I couldn't find that pathway; there's no 'Documents and settings' straight from the C-drive that I could see, nor 'Application Data' anywhere. I did find a .mpb file of a back-up I did of my mobile using MPE in April 2009, but when I click on it, it opens MPE but does not show anything because no phone is connected.

[FJ]

Since Vista the path is "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\MyPhoneExplorer"

I did find a .mpb file of a back-up I did of my mobile using MPE in April 2009, but when I click on it, it opens MPE but does not show anything because no phone is connected.

You can also import a backupfile without connected phone.
Go to contactlist-rightclick-Import/Export-Import...
Same for calendar and sms-archive

[evil]

Hello,

Here's my situation:
My pc crashed with some virus while I was away, the hdd's windows partition with my phone explorer went to bust (both MFT were damaged) I gave the hdd to an aquitance, he got most of the data out.

I installed on an older hdd win7 (the beta version) my phone explorer 1.6
I copied into appdata the files sms.dat and so on, but my phone explorer crashes when I try to start it. Tried to copy for example only sms.dat still crashes.

Can I use those files? Because the previous backup I made is bit too old :/

I mean i have from 1.5 version the whole appdata folder. How can I restore my phone explorer?

Thanks!

[FJ]

Send me all *.dat-Files zipped via email. I'll see if i can load them.

[evil]

I've sent You to e-mail those files.Hope YOu have better luck than I did.
Thanks!

[FJ]

Bad news for you - you did run a recovery-program, right ?
The files do not contain any data which were written from MPE. If you did not enable the fileencryption in MPE (and i can see you did not enable it) then the files are human readable in notepad, at least as readable Hex-Sequence. If you open f.e. your SMS.dat in Notepad then you'll see many cryptic codes. And in the first line there is something of the VideoLan-team. So i'm sure this data have nothing to do with MyPhoneExplorer.

[evil]

Oh, I never figured it could be like that
Like I said, I didn't do it, since the partition was beyond my help, I gave the hdd to an IT guy, and he said he did masterful stuff and this all he could save..

Hmm, I'll try to search for something that has maybe something to do with mpe..

Thanks for trying!