Old SMS Messages Archive & Restoration

[Shankar]

Hi MPE Team,

First up, I wish to congratulate and thank you for such a fine & useful piece of work.

I had factory reset my phone (HTC DEsire HD 516 Dual Sim). After this, I could not connect to MPE (because the MPE client from the phone was erased during the factory reset). I could not figure out the way to make MPE recognize my phone, so I reinstalled MPE (under a different folder). Unfortunately, this did not work either. I intentionally installed into a new folder because I wanted to preserve the archived messages.

Then I got the idea to re-enable USB Debugging Mode. After this, I tried reconnecting to MPE and after a longer period, it worked! Unfortunately, it is now a fresh installation and all my earlier archived sms messages are missing.

Is there a way to locate the previously archived messages & transfer them back to my phone? I'm not so concerned about the contacts or schedules as I have them on my PC's Outlook. I just don't know what to do about the SMS messages. I have not created a backup file in MPE before, so I cannot restore anything.

Please advise.

Thank you.

[raj_srini]

I have the same question please. I have transferred all my messages to the message archive in MPE and deleted the same from my phone before doing a factory reset. I'm now not able to find an option where I can transfer the mesages from the MPE message archive to my phone. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[icke1954]

@Shankar

I intentionally installed into a new folder because I wanted to preserve the archived messages.

The install folder from MyPhoneExplorer is not relevant.
The standard folder for the dates is %appdata%\Roaming\MyPhoneExplorer\...
You can change it => MPE => F2 => Advanced 2 => Datbase
The name from archived sms messages is SMSArchive.dat
But I afraid you have is overwritten and then you have no chance without backup

@raj_srini
MPE => Messages => Archive (computer) => messages list
- <Ctrl> + <A> (all mark)
- kontext menu of the SMS list => Copy to phone => In original storage

Best regards
icke