How can I export an SMS conversation?

[EoN604]

I have attempted to use "SMS Backup and Restore" AND "Super Backup" to backup a particular SMS conversation thread from my phone. The problem is when I go to select the conversations, it seems to NOT include the conversations I'm after in the list. When I try to do a full export of conversations, this thread doesn't appear in the list.

Note that these conversations are very large in size. Could this be the reason they're not available for exporting?

Note it is of utmost critical importance that I am able to somehow, in ANY WAY, export these SMS's off my phone. An important legal case depends on it. I'm in real trouble if I can't do this I started using Textra thinking it would be a more reliable SMS app, and now I'm faced with the scary possibility that I can't export the messages to an external format.

I have in the past been able to do this easily with SMS Backup and Restore with the normal SMS app.

Please help. I will do anything required to get these sms's backed up and onto my computer.

Regards,
Gavin

PS. i posted a similar thread a while back but the topic was confusing, and i have clarified my question a bit better this time.

 

[Almeuit]

Try ChompSMS (made by the textra people). You can then send a big conversation to an email address to get it off the phone.

 

[SpookDroid]

Or if time is of the essence and you cannot get these to work (if the conversation is MMS, some phones won't allow you to back it up for some reason), you can always take screenshots.

 

[EoN604]

Almeuit - but will chompsms pick up all the textra messages? i can't afford to lose them. can't take any risks.

SpookDroid - I started to do that, but there's 10,000's messages - way too many.

Any other suggestions?

 

[SpookDroid]

I've used EaseBackup before and it works, EXCEPT for MMS since my phone restricts it, but if you know where the back up file is for the one you already did, you might try to open it in a text editor or Excel and see if the data is there...