August 7th, 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
February 1st, 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
November 29th, 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
June 30th, 2011· fixed: group parsing
· added: experimental (not perfect, but somehow working) parsing of messages from Symbian message storage
March 5th, 2011· fixed: vcard parser improved
· fixed: minor binary calendar parsinf fix
· improved: older phone models ARC format support added
December 29th, 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)
November 26th, 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
November 8th, 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
May 21st, 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
May 6th, 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
April 22nd, 2010· added: status bar with file and filesize counter
· added: option to save parsing log into text file
· improved: parsing of compressed fragments
April 14th, 2010· added: experimental parsing of compressed fragments in nbu and arc backup
· formats, more files from symbian phones backups can be exported now
March 30th, 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)
February 8th, 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
February 8th, 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...)
January 4th, 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
December 18th, 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
December 8th, 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.)
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