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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
|---|---|
| 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 | 2020-04-21 23:13 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Cross-posted to 3 groups.
Arlen Holder wrote:
> In response to what Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> 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
> <https://i.postimg.cc/dtDwkn3V/xml02.jpg>
>
> 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
> <https://i.postimg.cc/MpdL7JLk/xml03.jpg>
>
>> 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
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What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-21 23:05 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-04-21 13:51 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-21 23:41 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-04-21 16:45 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-22 07:43 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-04-21 23:13 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-22 10:13 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-04-22 01:56 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-22 12:51 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-22 08:24 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-22 16:21 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-22 16:42 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-22 19:15 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-22 20:17 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-22 21:35 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-23 09:10 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-23 12:46 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-23 13:15 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-23 13:25 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-23 22:55 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-23 13:29 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-21 14:03 -0400
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