On my WP8.1, how do I restore text backup?

[Windows Central Question]

WP8.1 - Restoring Text Backup

Hi,

I've been using WP for a few years now and a great fan but one thing I've had a hard time is with restoring some text messages. Most of my single 1 user to 1 user messages just restore on their own and it's fine. However, any text messages with more than 1 person (group messaging), all messages are showing "Oops! The media content you're looking for isn't there anymore."

This is unusual because it has all the information about the message (who sent it, when they sent it, who else was part of the group, etc). I can understand if it was a picture that was sent and unable to restore but this is just text.

any ideas?

 

[dKp1977]

Re: WP8.1 - Restoring Text Backup

Even though it's just text, group messages are technically not SMS but MMS. That of course doesn't explain why they cannot be restored, but it explains the error you're seeing.