Getting A Handle On Your iPhone documents (A Mini-Tales From The Command Line Story)

The past two weeks have been fairly hectic, with little moment to deal with anything but defense updates to software (hence, no software update news). that week, however, my iPhone needed some serious care and feeding as it was taking forever to load up the SMS screens since I have saved most every SMS I have received since purchasing the phone last July. Despite the iPhone using SQLite as the foundation knowledge store for items such as SMS messages and Contacts, a large number of entries in these repositories seems to slow the associated user interfaces to a crawl (which is probably an app/UI issue more than it is a database issue). Rather than just clear

the extended conversations, I wanted to have an accessible, readable backup of them first.

I turned to Ecamm’s PhoneView program as it has been much Twittered about lately and is from the makers of the most excellent Call Recorder software (highly useful for Skype interviews). Along with providing access to SMS history (which is what I really wanted) it plus claims to supply easy access to your iTunes media, photos, notes, shout history and contacts, including the ability to drag and drop each file from the iPhone to your desktop.
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Orginal post by Bob Rudis