HELP: How to change SMS storage place to My Storage?

[Guest seantse]

The phone memory is easy to be filled up by SMS.

[Guest piggygotfried]

Same here... my cemail.vol is 7.84 mb.

I have a feeling it's mostly email though, and the only thing I really want to save is my text messages so I figure I'd back up all my messages using a backup program, delete that file and restore them. I don't have much time to do it all at the moment, but you could try if you want.

http://www.modaco.com/content/smartphone-g...lete-or-rename/

Edit: This might work http://www.modaco.com/content/general-pino...-of-cemail-vol/

Edited May 16, 2009 by piggygotfried

[Guest seantse]

Thanks. I found another proposed way:

1. Create folder in storage card: \MAPI\ATTACHMENTS

2. Set registry [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI\Values\AttachPath] as \Storage Card\MAPI\ATTACHMENTS

3. Set registry [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI\Values\DbPath] as \Storage Card\cemail.vol

4. Set registry [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI\Values\PropertyPath] as \Storage Card\MAPI

5. Soft reset.

[Guest leebates1986]

Thanks. I found another proposed way:

1. Create folder in storage card: \MAPI\ATTACHMENTS

2. Set registry [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI\Values\AttachPath] as \Storage Card\MAPI\ATTACHMENTS

3. Set registry [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI\Values\DbPath] as \Storage Card\cemail.vol

4. Set registry [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI\Values\PropertyPath] as \Storage Card\MAPI

5. Soft reset.

i've followed that, got all messaging folders to be re-directed to the storage card but still cant get cemail.vol to unlock on the device, tried following / using http://www.modaco.com/content/general-pino...-of-cemail-vol/ aswell but still doesn't work. any ideas? also followed

Follow these steps for registry modifications... works fine for me on my WM6.5:

1. Create a new folder in storage card using file explorer… call it “Messaging”

2. Go inside that folder and create another folder called “Attachments”

3. Start Registry editor and go to HKEY_Current_User… go to Software, then Microsoft, then MAPI

4. In the split screen below you should see 3 entries, this came when you selected the “Storage Card” option for messaging in my previous email –

a. (default) (Value not set)

b. AttachPath \Storage Card\Messaging\Attachments

c. PropertyPath \Storage Card\Messaging

5. If you do not see these entries, you will need to create them

a. Create “String”.. Enter name as “AttachPath” and Value: String as “\Storage Card\Messaging\Attachments”

b. Repeat the same step for next entry… Create “String”.. Enter name as “PropertyPath” and Value: String as “\Storage Card\Messaging”

6. Now lets go to “Inbox” located few entries above “MAPI”

7. Go to settings and in split screen look for “AttsOnCard”… the value for this should be 1, if not, change it by clicking on 2nd grey icon and choosing “edit value”.

8. Now go to HKEY_Local_Machine, then go to “System”… then to “Inbox”.

9. Open Inbox, then click on “Attachments folder… in the split screen below you will see an entry “AttsDir”… its value would be by default “Inbox.mst.xxxxxxxxx……….”. Edit Value, remove the previous string and change it to “\Storage Card\Messaging".

10. Now similarly, change the value of “BottomDir” to “Attachments”

11. Now similarly, change the value of “MiddleDir” to “Messaging”

12. Now similarly, change the value of “TopDir” to “Storage Card”

13. Now go to “Settings” folder below “Attachments”… there are two things we have to do here… (use the same steps as point 6 above)

a. Change the value of “AttachPath” to “\Storage Card\Messaging\Attachments”… if “AttachPath” is not there, create a new String Value as mentioned in step 5.a.

b. Create new String name “PropertyPath” with value “\Storage Card\Messaging” as shown in step 5.b.

14. You are almost done now…

15. Close Registry editor. Go to File Explorer, copy all files from “\Windows\Messaging” to “\Storage Card\Messaging” … similarly for files in attachments.

16. Once you have all the data moved safely, you can delete the folders “Messaging” under \Windows and you can delete the “Inbox.mst.xxxxxxxx.xxxx……” folder in \storage card. (remember to move attachments from this folder to \Storage Card\Messaging\Attachments” as well.

17. All done… restart your device… and ENJOY!!!!

from xda forums. any ideas people? i need all messages on phone for work, 12,000+ takes up at least 8mb in the cemail.vol. and after deleted i also managed to free up another 8mb of ram so running from the storage card would be ideal