Go SMS Pro backup problems

[sczygan]

objective: get Go SMS Pro to read the backup file it/i created.

I backed up my texts on my old phone (WHICH IS GONE NOW) through Go SMS pro's back up and restore system, but i backed it up to my computer because I though I'd be able to print them. It transferred onto the computer originally as a zip folder, so my hubby unzipped it and now it's an .XML file. long story short, I couldn't print them out and now I need them on my new phone.

What I've tried: Hooking the phone up to the computer and transferring the .XML file to the sd card under the following folders:
Gosms/backup/sms
SMSBackupandRESTORE (which i think is the original default messenger)
I have also transferred the file to the phone storage under the folders:
GOSMS
GOSMS/backup/SMS
GOSMS/backup/SMSrestore

I have also had my hubby zip the file back up and put the zipped version in all of those folders.

Now, after all of that when i open up the "restore" option in GOSMS it says "no backup".
I opened the messenger app (the default app the phone comes with) and went to "restore messages" which took me to a folder that I cant seem to find in the phone storage or my sd card (so i can't put my file in there), but it DOES let me "find" the folder that I want to open the file from and it will recognize only the .XML file but when I click on it it says "please wait" for a few sec and it appears to try to load, but then it says "unable to read file"

After all of my research trying to fix this, I know what I SHOULD have done, but bottom line is, I did it this way and my old phone is gone.

Is there any hope? Any suggestions?

 

[Hadron]

Do you know exactly what folder Go SMS wrote it to? If in doubt, try making a new backup with Go SMS, see where it puts it, then replace that with your zip.

The filename may need to be exactly the same. Linux (which Android is based on) file names are case-sensitive, so e.g. .xml and .XML are different. And if you copied to the phone from the PC, make sure the PC is set to show file extensions - if not there is the chance that there is an extra bit on the end of the filename that the PC doesn't show (a file browser on the phone should show it).

And if Go SMS wrote it as a zip, it's almost certainly the zip file you need rather than the xml. Chances are it used it's own xml format that a different message app can't read as well. Was there anything else in the zip apart from the single xml file?

BTW I've never used Go SMS to make a backup, so there's a lot of educated guesswork here. I'm really trying to guess what might go wrong in general.