We're celebrating April with a round-up of improvements in BlackBerry Backup Extractor, including a new look, better indication of progress, and a few other tweaks.
- Feature Brand new look and interface. What do you think of it?
- Improvement The progress bar now reflects progress during extraction more accurately.
- Improvement We've wired up our new management protocol into this build, making activation easier.
- Fix We've made a nasty edge-case "Zip exception" go away. Sorry about that, if you were affected.
BlackBerry Backup Extractor version 0.100 is our first update for 2013. We've enhanced our extraction of media files, extended our support for corrupt BlackBerry backup files, and fixed formatting issues that occurred when extracting contacts from some types of BlackBerry backups.
- Improvement Improved extraction of media files from
.ipdand.bbbBlackBerry backups - Improvement Improvements when extracting from corrupt BlackBerry backups missing essential backup files
- Fix Fixes formatting issues and error (
FileStream will not open Win32 devices such as disk partitions and tape drives) that may appear when extracting contacts from certain BlackBerry backups
Today's release brings new enhancements to exporting contacts, and improved BBM support.
- Improvement Extended UTF-8 support for notes the calendar export files
- Improvement Contacts and address book entries include new field data for "Date of birth" and "Anniversary date" when exporting to CSV format
- Improvement Support for the updated BBM Conversation format from BDS 7.
We fixed some bugs and made improvements to BlackBerry Backup Extractor in version 0.89. We hope you like it!
- Improvement ICS calendar file extraction now includes time zones data where available in backup
- Improvement Faster extraction!
- Fix Extracted CSV calendar containing very large text lengths handled more cleanly
- Fix Conversion of invalid characters from backup database to extracted file format, fixes some localised issues with some Outlook versions
Today's release adds support for the v2 BBB backup format introduced by BDS 7 and a number of other changes.
- Feature Supports new v2
BBBBlackBerry backup format, both on Mac and Windows - Feature Extraction for MMS messages in HTML format including attachments
- Feature Extracts multimedia files (from phone memory only, not from memory card as this is not backed up in
BBBorIPDbackups) - Improvement Improved extraction of the BlackBerry Messenger conversations and saved BBM backups
We've updated the site with the latest version of our IPD converter application. It supports different operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux) and also now comes with a one-click, easy-to-use Windows installer.
- Feature Drag and drop IPD files straight into the application
- Improvement New file handling features for very large IPD files
- Improvement New one-click, easy-to-use Windows installer
- Fix Provision for older Blackberry IPD files and BlackBerry model discrepancies