tmo1

Thank you for reporting this. I'm not sure why Android is providing us with the name of a non-existent file, but perhaps we need to add some sort of null...

Thank you. I should probably add a check for problems, even if I don't understand why they would occur :)

I've attached a patched version of the app that should catch and log any exceptions thrown when trying to access MMS binary message parts and then continue with the export....

> [catch-mms-part-access-exceptions.zip](https://github.com/tmo1/sms-ie/files/9449422/catch-mms-part-access-exceptions.zip) perfectly works without any errors Thank you! Closing. [Edit:] It's [this commit](https://github.com/tmo1/sms-ie/commit/d224172a5790a142545dc724f926ee869c580728) (below in the thread) that fixes the problem.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm not sure how I feel about them, though, so I'll leave this issue open for further discussion and feedback.

> I hope there's no hard feelings :) Of course not! I appreciate suggestions for improvement of the app, and I'm happy to have a discussion about the UI /...

The reason it's set up this way is that the `Export to directory` preference does not simply set a default directory, but it enable the app to acquire permission to...

I'm not sure I understand you - is there currently a problem with setting the export directory to a location on an SD card?

It's an interesting idea, but as you imply, it would require work, and it's also tricky to do correctly: identifying duplicates is not that simple a task, since identical contacts...

VMG is apparently an ancient, proprietary format used by Nokia to store SMS messages (see [here](https://fileinfo.com/extension/vmg), [here](https://file.org/extension/vmg)). I'm not going to directly incorporate support for it into SMS I/E, but...