SMS' disappeared

[Stickfigure]

So I was browsing through my sms's today and I noticed that a lot of my sms' from a month and further back have disappeared.

The name and number of the person the sms was from is still there but when I open it there are no sms'. Also the icon next to the sms is green with the pen, the icon that is associated with an un sent sms in that conversation.

I first thought it was to do with me updating my BB's software but there are other sms conversations I had on my phone before I updated and they are unaffected.

Any idea where these sms' have disappeared to and is there anyway for me to retrieve them?

 

[CranialBlaze]

Its your message settings, by default it stores messages for 30 days, anything older is automatically deleted from the handset, in the case of sms it seems to convert it to a draft as it can only delete the messages not the "conversation"

*s for getting them back, not going to happen, but if u regularly keep things that long I would suggest changing the setting to a longer time or for important messages you open it up, make sure ur cursor in the bubble that you need to keep and select save message on the menu, that puts it in the saved folder which is not purged at the 30 day mark.