Greetings ,
I wanted to ask if there is a program which will be able to open an .hbk file under Fedora 20 ? This file is supposed to be a backup copy of the sms messages from my HTC Desire X .
vim ?! ;)
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Kostas Sfakiotakis < kostassf@cha.forthnet.gr> wrote:
Greetings ,
I wanted to ask if there is a program which will be able to open an .hbk file under Fedora 20 ? This file is supposed to be a backup copy of the sms messages from my HTC Desire X . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Jack Craig jack.craig.aptos@gmail.com wrote:
vim ?! ;)
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Kostas Sfakiotakis <
kostassf@cha.forthnet.gr> wrote:
Greetings ,
I wanted to ask if there is a program which will be able to open an .hbk
file under Fedora 20 ?
This file is supposed to be a backup copy of the sms messages from my
HTC Desire X .
Well, you might try google!!! Found this: http://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/file-extension-hbk/
On 07/17/2014 09:47 PM, JD wrote:
Well, you might try google!!! Found this: http://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/file-extension-hbk/
I did tried Google and didn't really found anything helpful apart from reloading the file to my phone and then trying to back it up with another program with a more helpful format . Forgot to mention earlier that my cell phone is running Android 4.1.1
On 07/17/2014 12:31 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
On 07/17/2014 09:44 PM, Jack Craig wrote:
vim ?! ;)
Nope , it will not do the work since it isn't a text file . Unfortunately "file" doesn't have a clue about the type of the file . It will just report :data
Have you tried nano? If that doesn't work, I'm sure that there are hex editors for Linux.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:07:36PM +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
On 07/17/2014 10:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Have you tried nano? If that doesn't work, I'm sure that there are > hex editors for Linux.Just tried nano and it didn't worked as the ,hbk file isn't a text file . Any recommendations for hex editors ???
If you just want to read it, you could use od.
Regards, Mike
On 07/17/2014 11:13 PM, Michael Parker wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:07:36PM +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
On 07/17/2014 10:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
If you just want to read it, you could use od.
Can you be a bit more specific , what exactly do you mean with od
yum search od , returned quite a few results
Regards, Mike
On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 01:09 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
On 07/17/2014 11:13 PM, Michael Parker wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:07:36PM +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
On 07/17/2014 10:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
If you just want to read it, you could use od.
Can you be a bit more specific , what exactly do you mean with od
yum search od , returned quite a few results
od is one of those basic Unix/Linux utilities that's always there but that people using DEs tend to forget about. "man od" for more.
poc
On 07/18/2014 01:30 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
od is one of those basic Unix/Linux utilities that's always there but that people using DEs tend to forget about. "man od" for more.
Thanks for pointer , i found od
I tried "od --strings" and "od -t c" but neither returned something understandable .
Best result i have had so far was to upload the hbk back to my cell phone and then back it up with another application that would export the data i wanted in another format ( Play Store did a pretty nice work there ) . Then things were much simpler since i could read the sms even with vi ( nano , KWrite , whatever editor )
On 18.07.2014, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
Best result i have had so far was to upload the hbk back to my cell phone and then back it up with another application that would export the data i wanted in another format
This one's free, without any advertising and backs up your messages in .XML format, which you can easily read in your browser and other free software.
On 07/18/2014 08:31 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 18.07.2014, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
Best result i have had so far was to upload the hbk back to my cell phone and then back it up with another application that would export the data i wanted in another format
This one's free, without any advertising and backs up your messages in .XML format, which you can easily read in your browser and other free software.
Yes i noticed that application and although it wasn't the one i chose it is indeed a pretty good one and it will do the work , basically this is the general idea, backup the sms in a file with a more usable format than the hbk .
On 2014-07-17 16:59, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
On 07/18/2014 01:30 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
od is one of those basic Unix/Linux utilities that's always there but that people using DEs tend to forget about. "man od" for more.
Thanks for pointer , i found od
I tried "od --strings" and "od -t c" but neither returned something understandable .
Best result i have had so far was to upload the hbk back to my cell phone and then back it up with another application that would export the data i wanted in another format ( Play Store did a pretty nice work there ) . Then things were much simpler since i could read the sms even with vi ( nano , KWrite , whatever editor )
As this is a backup file, I wonder if the file is a compressed file. Try the various unzip, bzip or other programs to decompress it. Just a thought as many backup systems will compress the backups.
From what I see, it is a closed HTC file format and another example of why we should only use OPEN file formats. Try contacting HTC.
On 07/17/2014 01:07 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
Just tried nano and it didn't worked as the ,hbk file isn't a text file . Any recommendations for hex editors ???
A little research told me that mcedit, the text editor that midnight commander uses, has a text mode.
yum install mc
Will get you the entire package. If you've ever used Norton Commander or the old DOS program List, this will be very familiar, and mcedit can be run in stand-alone mode.
On 07/17/2014 11:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 07/17/2014 01:07 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
Just tried nano and it didn't worked as the ,hbk file isn't a text file . Any recommendations for hex editors ???
A little research told me that mcedit, the text editor that midnight commander uses, has a text mode.
yum install mc
Will get you the entire package. If you've ever used Norton Commander or the old DOS program List, this will be very familiar, and mcedit can be run in stand-alone mode.
Well of course i have used Norton Commander in the early '90s if i recall correctly , the opposite would be quite odd and Midnight Commander rings a bell but i don't remember exactly, if i recall it was something like Norton Commander ( i really loved that program , if i recall it belonged to the good old times of Peter Norton Computing ) .
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