iPhone: Any way to access mms-photos from a conversation history?

Whappers · 19 Mar 2010 at 13:55

Afternoon all,

I have an iPhone. I also have some pictures that were sent to me many many months ago. I chat with this person a lot and there are literally hundreds if not thousands of texts to go through before I can access the photos to even save them (that is before it crashes out to the home screen!

). Is there an app or program to lift the photos that are embedded throughout an entire conversation history or are they now lost?

Thanks in advance!

Andr3w · 19 Mar 2010 at 14:17

If you can remember what month you got the picture sent then you can just keep clicking 'show earlier messages' until you find a message from that month and just scroll up/down until you find it - shouldn't take too long!

Are they naked pictures

?

I bet they are!

Whappers · 19 Mar 2010 at 14:26

Andr3w said:
If you can remember what month you got the picture sent then you can just keep clicking 'show earlier messages' until you find a message from that month and just scroll up/down until you find it - shouldn't take too long!

Are they naked pictures ?

I bet they are!

Yeah, but the show earlier messages bit is where (after about 30 clicks) it crashes out to the home screen! It is very frustrating and happens every time i go to click on the photos. They're not naked ones by the way but are kinda special to me.

Tenatious · 19 Mar 2010 at 14:57

Are you with O2 and have Bluebook activated? If you are, that saves all your messages online.

Beasty · 19 Mar 2010 at 15:46

Whappers said:
Yeah, but the show earlier messages bit is where (after about 30 clicks) it crashes out to the home screen! It is very frustrating and happens every time i go to click on the photos. They're not naked ones by the way but are kinda special to me.

I bet

CGrieves · 19 Mar 2010 at 16:58

The SMS database is backed up to the file " 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mddata " in your iphone iTunes backup. It's an SQLite database, so you can use any freeware SQLite browser app (rename the file to .db first) to get at the contents using SQL queries.

I've not used this method since MMS went live on the iPhone, so I'm not sure how it stores MMS pics, but it's a starting point....

Whappers · 20 Mar 2010 at 19:48

CGrieves said:
The SMS database is backed up to the file " 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mddata " in your iphone iTunes backup. It's an SQLite database, so you can use any freeware SQLite browser app (rename the file to .db first) to get at the contents using SQL queries.

I've not used this method since MMS went live on the iPhone, so I'm not sure how it stores MMS pics, but it's a starting point....

Ok. I have done all this and tried opening the .db file without much luck. Do I need to use queries? I don't know how to use them. The error message I get is: "File is not a SQLlite3 Database". Mmm. Any ideas? Help much appreciated!!