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Import selected SMS from a backup [answered]

asked 2015-07-05 00:15:29 +0200

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I accidentially deleted all SMS of one contact. So I went to a backup of two days earlier, opened /home/nemo/.local/share/commhistory/commhistory.db in sqlite3 and extracted the relevant rows:

.mode insert Events
.output foo.sql
select * from Events where type = 2 and remoteUid LIKE '%12345';

I copied the resulting foo.sql to my Jolla and imported it with

sqlite3 /home/nemo/.local/share/commhistory/commhistory.db < foo.sql

and the new rows are definitely there and were not there before.

However, they are not shown in the messaging app. Do I need to copy more, or update some kind of index?

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Is it possible to restore them from the commhistory-tool_groups.dump?

I did a backup and a reset of the phone. After the update marathon i wanted to restore the backup, but Sailfish couldn't find it. . The backup is called sailfish_backup_2017-01-05T11-35-18Z.tar and Contains

Accounts
Browser
Calendar
Gallery
Media
Message
Notes
People
Phone

I find in it the commhistory-tool_groups.dump Can I some how restore the SMS communication?

Linus Kasch ( 2017-01-05 23:09:18 +0200 )edit

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answered 2015-07-05 00:19:50 +0200

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I found the problem. The Events table references the Group table using the groupId column. Because I deleted all SMS of that contact it got assigned a new group later.

I was able to fix it by issuing

update Events set groupId = 116  where type = 2 and remoteUid LIKE '%12345';

on my Jolla. Now all SMS are back.

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