FJ Software

Hi,

I recently used Sony Ericsson PC Suite to backup my sms archive. I then later realized (after all my messages was gone from the phone) that there is no way to restore them (stupid if you ask me). I still have the copies of the sms messages on my harddrive though. They are all saved as .txt files. But the txt files only contain the actual message. A .cah file is also saved along with all the .txt files. This .cah file keeps information on which sms is from whom and when it was sent/received.

I was basically wondering if there is a chance you could add support to MyPhoneExplorer to read .cah and .txt files to import SMS messages back to the Sony Ericsson phone. (it is a w595, but I don't think that is relevant to this topic).

Its already implemented in the current beta and it will be official with the next version.

That is awesome. Great work with the application FJ!

I have downloaded the current beta, but I cannot find how it recognizes the .cah files. I go to the archive folder, right click, choose import, but .cah file extension is not recognized there.

Please help.

Great software by the way.

Kind regard,
turhan

If it works you'll find a seperate contextmenu-entry called like "Import from PC-Suite-Archive". Check in Menu-Extras-About if you see the text "nightly" right of the version. This means that you are working on a beta-version.

I'm using the latest nightly build and I can't see this option either, not that I need to use it but I was just looking.

I do like the new function where the emoticons are images rather than text though ... one thing , I notice that this works if done with a capital 'P' but not with a lowercase 'p' ... this means that messages from at least one of my friends do not render properly

Are your files in the original location ?
MyPhoneExplorer searches the *.cah-Files (and also the *.txt-Files) in the folder C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Sony Ericsson\Sony Ericsson PC Suite\ and its subfolders. I will fix the thing with the p in smilies

Fj, thanks for your quick responses and quality software. Kind regards, Turhan

Hello FJ,

.cah files are taken care of. I have yet another question, though.

A different version of Sony Ericsson PC Suite did not use .cah files, but num, ums and sms extensions. The file names are like "rcv0000a.num". I don't remember the version, but I am sure it was PC Suite. I cannot find these extensions anywhere in the internet.

The problem is they are very different from cah/txt arrangement. Do you also have a solution for that?

Kind regards..

PS: If you would like to see those files, I can copy/paste them here... Or send through email.

This files cannot be handled, but i don't think that is really needed to implement them. At least since PC-Suite v5 i know for sure that *.cah and *.txt Files are used. The problem with the messages in the PC-Suite which cannot be transfered back to phone appeared in the last months - i think since PC-Suite v5.

Hi, I have been googling how to open my old SMS archive files and eventually I came across this page.

I have a queue.cah file and a folder.dat file created by an old version of Sony Ericsson PC Companion.

I tried downloading MyPhoneExplorer but it doesn't seem to be able to open these. Is there an older version that will open them?

Thanks