What's new in NbuExplorer 3.3.88.40087
Sep 4, 2014
- added: brute force scanning for JPEG images, 3GP/MP4 videos and zip archives
- added: option to enable drag&drop (disabled by default)
- improved: option to recalculate UTC times enabled by default and applied also on predefsent messages
- improved: phone number to contact name matching for messages
- improved: minor improvement in symbian message parsing
- changed: log verbosity decreased for messages
- fixed: "Illegal characters in path" error during file deduplication
- fixed: bug in parsing nbf & zip files
New in NbuExplorer 3.2.82.42257 (Feb 26, 2014)
- added: joining of multipart messages (from binary and predef storage)
- added: merging of multiple backup files (ability to open more files at once)
- added: option to recalculate VMG timestamps from UTC to local time
- improved: parsing robustness fixes
- improved: detection of duplicate messages is more efficient
New in NbuExplorer 3.1.71.22126 (Jan 10, 2014)
- added: parsing of contacts and messages from nfb & nfc backups
- added: option to export only selected messages
- fixed: xml encoding during export of messages for android
- fixed: gnoring of predefmessages as message source
New in NbuExplorer 3.0.64.37278 (Jun 11, 2013)
- added: dbshell integration for parsing contacts and other info from Symbian databases
- added: preferences allowing selection of message sources (VMG, predefmessages, Symbian message storage)
- Improved: advanced options for installer
- Fixed: parsing robustness fixes
New in NbuExplorer 2.6.53.40555 (Aug 7, 2012)
- added: extract files by drag & drop (for example on desktop)
- added: applying found phonebook entries on messages found in nbf backups
- added: extracted *.mms files can be opened individually
- fixed: fixes in mms parsing
New in NbuExplorer 2.5.52.37953 (Feb 1, 2012)
- added: new folder structure type (using zip compression) parsing, this structure can be found in backups from new models
- fixed:time of sent messages from "predefmessages" storage
New in NbuExplorer 2.4.48.1800 (Nov 29, 2011)
- added: new backup format (nbf) support. Actually nbf is nothing more than
- plain zip archive, so as a side effect, support for zip files has
- been added too. You can use NbuExplorer as "unzip with preview"
- tool now if you like
- added: new message format decoding (storage which is typically under
- "predefmessages" system folder). This format decoding is used
- for preview purposes but also for load of Messages tab content
- during nbf backup format parsing
- added: author email link added to About application dialog
New in NbuExplorer 2.3.44.140541 (Jun 30, 2011)
- fixed: group parsing
- added: experimental (not perfect, but somehow working) parsing of messages from Symbian message storage
New in NbuExplorer 2.2.41.16088 (Mar 5, 2011)
- fixed: vcard parser improved
- fixed: minor binary calendar parsinf fix
- improved: older phone models ARC format support added
New in NbuExplorer 2.1.36.5863 (Dec 29, 2010)
- fixed: continue after error during file extraction
- fixed: fixes in parsing of compressed fragments (file coverage increased, out of memory error prevention)
- fixed: continue parsing after parse error in vcard section
- fixed: vcard sections (contacts, calendar, bookmarks) parsing rearranged to support subfolders (N8 calendar issue)
- fixed: binary encoded SMS parsing improved (number format type detection)
New in NbuExplorer 2.0.33.909 (Nov 26, 2010)
- added: "messages" tab for user friendly message browsing and exporting to txt, csv or xml
- improved: date and time parsing for incoming MMS messages
- fixed: fixes in parsing of compressed fragments
New in NbuExplorer 1.19.27.2102 (Nov 8, 2010)
- added: parsing of binary SMS from newly discovered section of NBU format!
- added: parsing of base64 encoded photos from vcard contacts
- added: parsing date and time from contact vcard if present (REV)
- improved: first file autoselect after folder selection
- improved: vcf and vcs text preview (QUOTED-PRINTABLE text decoding)
- fixed: parsing of groups from 6230
New in NbuExplorer 1.18.3793.605 (May 21, 2010)
- fixed:minor fix in binary "todo" items parsing
- fixed:VCARD parser fix - line break in quoted encoding probably can contain spaces
- improved: internal code changes
- improved: new (unknown so far) nbu section skipping
- improved: filetype icon retreiving function made more resistant
- added:message text preview for items under private\1000484b\Mail2 folder
New in NbuExplorer 1.17.3777.41063 (May 6, 2010)
- improved: working with uncompressed file sizes
- improved: arc format parsing adapted for partial backups (Bookmarks.arc,
- Calendar.arc, Contacts.arc, Messages.arc, UserFiles.arc)
- improved: filtering of duplicated files
New in NbuExplorer 1.16.3762.42356 (Apr 22, 2010)
- added: status bar with file and filesize counter
- added: option to save parsing log into text file
- improved: parsing of compressed fragments
New in NbuExplorer 1.15.3755.41230 (Apr 14, 2010)
- added: experimental parsing of compressed fragments in nbu and arc backup
- formats, more files from symbian phones backups can be exported now
New in NbuExplorer 1.14.3740.40089 (Mar 30, 2010)
- added: experimental *.arc backup format (phone side created) support, only first part (proably with user data) decoded (10-30% file coverage with available samples achieved)
New in NbuExplorer 1.13.3691.1340 (Feb 8, 2010)
- no functional change, only some internal code refactoring before publication of source code, because this is first version with full public access to the source code via SVN repository at sourceforge
- readme.txt with short description, license.txt with GNU GPL license v3 and this changelog.txt added to official distribution
New in NbuExplorer 1.12 (Feb 8, 2010)
- fixed: 4GB nbu backup file limit removed
- improved: minor improvements in MMS parser
- improved: minor improvements in vcard parser
- added: another S60 folder structure type (0x1008) parsing
- added: compressed S60 folder structure type (0x1002, 0x1004 and 0x1006)
- parsing with output only to decompressed fragments (still not
- ordered to final file structure, but closer...)
New in NbuExplorer 1.11.3655.38632 (Jan 4, 2010)
- changed: project name changed from "Nokia NbuExplorer" just to "NbuExplorer"
- improved: mono compatibility (conditional usage of function that prevented application to run under mono on linux), tested on Ubuntu 9.10 after installing winforms2.0 extension (can be done with command "sudo apt-get install libmono-winforms2.0-cil").
- improved: changes in files datetime parsing - it should not throw "Not a valid Win32 FileTime" exception now
New in NbuExplorer 1.10.3638.38263 (Dec 18, 2009)
- added: more folder structure types parsing
- added: secondary calendar structure parsing (output only to the log)
- added: scan progress reporting and other parse log improvements
- added: information about backup date and time
- added: auto bruteforce mode option on unknown structure detection
- added: analyze request on unknown structure detection
- improved: GUI response during parsing/scan
New in NbuExplorer 1.9.3629.1133 (Dec 8, 2009)
- added: "bruteforce scan" mode (available as filter in file open dialog) this mode will not find more files and works slower, but can help to recover contacts, messages, calendar and bookmarks when classic parsing method fails, it could also work with damaged backup files or different types of files containing phone data in form of vcards (for example communication center cache files such as PCCSContact.db PCCSSMS.db etc.)