Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware,comp.text.xml Subject: Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:13:54 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 03:14:00 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a8f57c3e548ce58fd06521b409b83107"; logging-data="10259"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18mzV/XtSmPYKrgg0CvUVfjtynASmMIxr8=" User-Agent: Ratcatcher/2.0.0.25 (Windows/20130802) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5QCQRsfxCEpzx8EXidcVODqmymE= In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:112154 alt.comp.freeware:326256 comp.text.xml:930 Arlen Holder wrote: > In response to what Paul wrote : > >> If an image was present, it must take space. Storage space. >> Have a look around for something suspiciously big looking >> inside the set of files. > > Hi Paul, > You're maybe on to something with respect to size... > > The interesting thing is that both apps were used to back up the SMS/MMS > but one app backed up ten times as many SMS "bits" as did the other app: > o SMS Backup & Restore SMS log = 384MB > o Super Backup SMS log = 335KB > > > That same app backed up only twice as many bits of the call log: > o SMS Backup & Restore call log = 64KB > o Super Backup call log = 23KB > > >> If a provider somehow provides a cloud service, and only >> a URL inside the XML files points to a file stored elsewhere, >> then you have your answer as to where your picture went. >> It could be an Evil Cloud got it. > > If they're both supposedly of the same SMS/MMS texts, there's a ten-fold > size difference, which implies the pictures might be the difference. > > Maybe there's a reference link to the MMS pictures; or maybe one is just > more efficient at their storage format than the other; or, maybe one is > backing up more stuff than is the other... or ... > This is kind of why I wanted a good solid XML Editor/Viewer on Windows. If you have a 384MB file of unknown type, you can pop it into HxD for a look. https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ There's all sorts of things they could do to it to obfuscate. Using the hex editor first, is just to see if it's binary before throwing it into a text editor. Paul