[pecosbull]

Originally Posted by trueskew

Ok, for the anal types with a lot of text messages that they want to preserve (like me), this is what I did to fix the order:

1. Sync all your messages with MyPhone
2. On myphone.microsoft.com, archive enough 2016 messages
so that 295 (*) or less are in your Text Messages list
3. Sync with MyPhone
4. Run CorrectSMSDate.exe
5. Reset your phone when CorrectSMSDate.exe prompts for you to
6. While the phone is resetting, go to myphone.microsoft.com and
delete the 2016 messages from the Text Messages list
7. On myphone.microsoft.com, go to "Connected phones" and delete
your phone
8. When your phone comes back, sync with MyPhone
9. Move up to 300 messages from your myphone.microsoft.com
Archive Text Messages list to your Phone Text Messages list
10. Repeat at 3.

(*) The count is important. If it's too high, CorrectSMSDate
may report an error and fail to run. The only way I've been
able to get past that so far has been to do a factory reset
on the phone.

Somewhat tedious with my 980 messages, but everything is good again. In my specific case, I moved all of my messages to the Archives initially and worked only with 2016 messages, that made things cleaner as far as my paranoia of accidentally deleting messages. It also made the re-syncs after deleting my phone faster.

=> Update: Correct SMS errors just come up some time, I'm not sure what the circumstances are. I found that sometimes if I'd get rid of all my phone messages (left them on myphone.microsoft.com) and ran Correct SMS so that it said there was nothing to do, it might work the next time. That's what I get for doing business on text and email... ActiveSync needs to store text messages.

When I run the CorrectSMSDate.exe, I get the message "Correct SMS failed!" Is this because I have over 295 "2016" text messages? I am on a TP2 running WM 6.5