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Hi all good to be back, this time its my messages, accidentally deleted all my previous messages, instead of one, now wanting to retrieve them. As usual take me through step by step
Note: I have not back up data previously

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Originally Posted by dishevelled View Post
Hi all good to be back, this time its my messages, accidentally deleted all my previous messages, instead of one, now wanting to retrieve them. As usual take me through step by step
Note: I have not back up data previously
It's highly possible you have lost your messages for good.
 
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try copying the /home/user/.smartsearch folder off your phone as soon as possible, and then use an sqlite db manager software (like sqliteman) to inspect the db files. It's possible that your messages might still be there.
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Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
try copying the /home/user/.smartsearch folder off your phone as soon as possible, and then use an sqlite db manager software (like sqliteman) to inspect the db files. It's possible that your messages might still be there.
If it was a DB corruption, then that could help but OP stated that he deleted the messages himself. I am not 100% sure whether it makes a difference, of course it might be that the entries in DB are not scrapped immediately, only marked as deleted?
 
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How do i retrieve the home/user database. Where can i find the file, under run of command prompt?
 
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How do i retrieve the home/user database. Where can i find the file, under run of command prompt?
Actually I believe the tracker databases are under .cache/tracker/
I am not sure what the stuff under /home/user/.smartsearch/ is, maybe that is cached all over the filesystem?
~ #
~ # ls -la /home/user/.cache/tracker/
total 37156
d---rwx--- 2 metadata metadata 4096 Nov 27 21:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 user users 4096 Nov 26 18:11 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 user metadata 5 Nov 25 13:57 db-locale.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user metadata 2 Nov 25 13:57 db-version.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user metadata 7 Nov 25 14:01 first-index.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user metadata 10 Nov 25 14:01 last-crawl.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user metadata 33985536 Nov 29 07:42 meta.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 user metadata 3663840 Nov 29 07:53 meta.db-wal
-rw-r--r-- 1 user metadata 5 Nov 25 14:00 miner-applications-locale.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user metadata 356756 Nov 25 13:57 ontologies.gvdb
~ #
 
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Okay how to go to .cache/tracker/
what are those codes below? ^
 
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
If it was a DB corruption, then that could help but OP stated that he deleted the messages himself. I am not 100% sure whether it makes a difference, of course it might be that the entries in DB are not scrapped immediately, only marked as deleted?
That's why I thought about smartsearch. It's just indexed (how stupid is that, re-indexing a database in another database) for search purposes, and it might not be refreshed immediately upon delete.
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I dont understand -.- How do i find those messages?
 
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