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Originally Posted by petermg
Gets through the 4 step process, starts reading my folders.. then fails  This after I disabled the advanced networking. Until I did that, it didn't see my phone at all. |
That's unfortunate, what with its acceptable export format.
If you backup messages with PIM Backup, unchecking 'binary', then open the .pib (rename .zip if you want) with 7-zip/WinZip/WinRAR and extract the msgs_xxx.csm file you can open this in Microsoft Excel (or OpenOffice Calc I'd think). In Excel's import wizard you'd specify it as a delimited data format, delimited by the ; semicolon character.
The resulting spreadsheet is messy, unthreaded, and so on, but all the data would be there and searchable.
It's possible that PIM Backup would be less prone to choking from SMS quantity and otherwise.
Merely
a solution, I expect better.