My Nokia 3310 died recently, and so I’ve been borrowing my father’s old ZTE T7 mobile phone. This has had one useful side-effect in that I was able to back-up the contents of my SIM card, namely, the phonebook.
JoinME for MacOS X is quite capable of loading the data from the phone and storing it on the computer, but there is one problem… where did it go?
Turns out, after a quick fiddle with Instruments.app (part of the Xcode suite) I found them under /System/Library/MobileList/phoneBook.plist. They’re in the standard Mac OS X plist file format, which is an XML derivative. I have now backed this file up into a place where I know where to find it and can free up some much needed space on the SIM. 🙂
Ohh, and to ZTE: You know fellas, it’d be nice if you didn’t keep trying to hide our data on us! The phone book on my SIM card is not your intellectual property.
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