How to export the SMS messages from your iPhone on Mac OS X. First of all, create a new backup of your iPhone (right-click the icon in iTunes and choose 'Create Backup;. 1. Get the UDID of the iPhone (click on the serial number on the iPhone Summary page in iTunes until it's displayed). 2. Browse to ~/Library/MobileSync/UDID number (~/ =your home folder) 3. Copy the file 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 to the desktop. 4. In the terminal browse to your desktop. 5. Now enter this command: Code: sqlite3 ~/Desktop/3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 6. Enter these commands: Code: [LIST] [*].header on [*].mode csv [*].output smsexport.csv [*]select datetime(date, 'unixepoch', 'localtime') as "date", case when flags=3 then 'sent' else 'received' end as "from", address as phone, text as "message" from message; [*].quit [/LIST] 7. It's now exported into a csv file on your desktop (the current directory where sqlite3 was executed).
When I call this line: [*]select datetime(date, 'unixepoch', 'localtime') as "date", case when flags=3 then 'sent' else 'received' end as "from", address as phone, text as "message" from message; I get an error message: Error: near "[ LIST]": syntax error What is going on and how can I fix it?
