Experience with Touchcopy to retrieve Messages?

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Experience with Touchcopy to retrieve Messages?

Hi,

I'm having a potential legal issue with my employer and I would to have some of our communications that were via text.

I have an iPhone 4 so followme didn't sync with my iPad and mbp. Plus, recently I reloaded my computer so will have to restore from Time Machine or a backup the Messages that were on my macbook.

I'd really like to be able to print out full threads rather than screenshots ... so I've heard about this Touchcopy app and wondering if anyone has experience with it?

Alternatively, can iCloud keep threads of messages? This has just occurred to me....

I love texting but it sure is easier printing out emails for backup in these instances!

iPhone 4

Posted on Aug 8, 2015 8:42 PM

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OhThatGirl Author

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Sep 9, 2015 12:04 PM in response to OhThatGirl

Great, thanks for the info. I purchased PhoneView and think it's pretty slick! At least now I have printed pieces of info -- and whole threads -- rather than he-said, she-said.

Also, I think being able to have a diary of sorts of texts is great, this way you don't have to keep your phone full of texts that are ages old. P

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Aug 9, 2015 9:33 AM in response to OhThatGirl

I haven't used TouchCopy but I have used PhoneView (Mac). It prints out very nice PDFs with each entry time stamped. I don't believe either TouchCopy or PhoneView will "retrieve" any messages that aren't already on your phone in the Messages app.

Before you do anything, I would recommend you consult your attorney. If you don't acquire information in just the right way, it might make it inadmissible in court.

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Lyssa

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Sep 9, 2015 12:04 PM in response to OhThatGirl

I will second Meg's recommendation for PhoneView - I wanted to keep some text messages and used it to save everything I'd received, plus a couple individual PDFs for certain people.

Check with your attorney, though, to make sure you get the information in a way that makes it acceptable for use in court.

~Lyssa

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Aug 11, 2015 9:36 AM in response to OhThatGirl

OhThatGirl wrote:

Also, I think being able to have a diary of sorts of texts is great, this way you don't have to keep your phone full of texts that are ages old. P

That's exactly what I use it for!

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OhThatGirl Author

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Sep 6, 2015 2:10 PM in response to OhThatGirl

Update: I bought it and I"m so happy...what a slick piece of software. I like that I can now remove all old threads and free up my phone!

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