SMS To a file

[GhettoBSD]

Originally Posted by topcheffan

I have been using Efficasoft Mobile Express - exports sms to a text file; but not sure if format is conducive to importing into excel for analysis.
It's a free download - here is link to the site - http://www.efficasoft.com/mobileexpress/index.htm

I will definitely check that out! Thanks dude!

[tryinghard]

Originally Posted by GhettoBSD

Eh, use PIM backup. With that, "back up" your txt msgs only, and don't do a compressed format.

Then, view the file and it'll be in a CSV format. That isn't that friendly, but once you filter out some things it'll be easily usable. I used that for court proceedings when I had to provide evidence! It has date/time stamp with a lot of other things that might be useful to you

Hi,

I did a PIm backup without compression, but it stores in a .pib format, how do I convert it to excel?

[GhettoBSD]

hmm, i might have to go through this tomorrow when I have more time.

But on the file, thats .pib, change it to .csv and open it in excel. You can specify how to break it up.