On 08.08.2013 01:37, Ian Malone wrote:
Hi,
Having just changed my phone I've got a lot of backed up messages in csv format (without the sender name, so I'm going to have to reconcile it with the separate contacts backup). While there are ways to get tem onto my new phone I'm not really sure I want them there, but some are useful and need to be kept. What I'm wondering is if there's some kind of desktop reader that can handle this. I'd have thought an email client, or groupware like evolution would have a way to handle SMS, but haven't found anything so far (there are addons for *sending*, but not sure they do what I want, which is ability to sort, search and browse received messages).
Since csv is plain text with separators you can use any text editor or other text manipulation program from plethora of tools available in UNIX/Linux world - cat, less, grep for example.
It might not be easy for e-mail client to understand all combinations of exported data from different mobile devices. This might be the reason you have your data in csv (plain text) and not in proprietary "backup file" format.
Mateusz Marzantowicz