MSN Messenger - anyone help
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ali_kat

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32,155 posts

251 months

Monday 19th June 2006
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I'm using Beta 8

I've told it to keep history of conversations, and it has done

I haven't done anything to it (ie changed any settings tonight)

But I've lost all my conversations - some of which I did want to keep

The only ones there are ones from 8.30pm this evening onwards, wheras before then there were loads.

Can I get them back?

Cyberhuss

1,940 posts

276 months

Monday 19th June 2006
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Why are you saving your conversations?

UncleDave

7,155 posts

261 months

Monday 19th June 2006
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Cyberhuss said:
Why are you saving your conversations?


Incase she meets someone who thought she was a bloke?
Then she can post the convo on PH and publically humiliate the offender

planetdave

9,922 posts

283 months

Monday 19th June 2006
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They do it so they can quote back at you some indescretion you made five years earlier when you were single.

S.O.P. I believe

vixpy1

42,699 posts

294 months

Monday 19th June 2006
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check my documents/my recieved files/you msn name/various xml files

Gorvid

22,371 posts

255 months

Monday 19th June 2006
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ali_kat said:
The only ones there are ones from 8.30pm this evening onwards


ali_kat

Original Poster:

32,155 posts

251 months

Monday 19th June 2006
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Cyberhuss said:
Why are you saving your conversations?


It's an automatic feature, and some of them were special to me.

vixpy1 said:
check my documents/my recieved files/you msn name/various xml files


First place I looked, all gone

Gorvid said:
ali_kat said:
The only ones there are ones from 8.30pm this evening onwards




Yes, it means 'his' are gone

Gorvid

22,371 posts

255 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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ali_kat said:
Yes, it means 'his' are gone


Maybe for the best.......?

Autonotiv

2,673 posts

254 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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Well this is very odd i still have mine, mmmmmm.
on your comp they should be in - C:Documents and SettingsAliMy DocumentsMy Chat Logs

any help?

other than that i don't know sorry.

mxdi

13,994 posts

279 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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Years (and years) ago I lost all my ex's very personal emails I was devastated at the time, but looking back it was good, helps you move on.

puggit

49,821 posts

278 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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I use MSN for business communication - that's why I record all of mine!!

ali_kat

Original Poster:

32,155 posts

251 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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Autonotiv said:
Well this is very odd i still have mine, mmmmmm.
on your comp they should be in - Cocuments and SettingsAliMy DocumentsMy Chat Logs

any help?

other than that i don't know sorry.


I've looked there mate, they've all gone

Gorvid said:
ali_kat said:
Yes, it means 'his' are gone


Maybe for the best.......?




Probably

mxdi said:
Years (and years) ago I lost all my ex's very personal emails I was devastated at the time, but looking back it was good, helps you move on.


Fingers crossed it does!

mxdi

13,994 posts

279 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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just found this...

MSN Messenger saves a maximum of 8,192 messages to your computer. Once this limit has been reached, you can archive or delete your older messages. Archiving will save your message history as a separate file. Deleting will remove your oldest messages to create room for new messages.

also says it should give you the option to delete or archive. Have you tried doing a search for a phrase or unusual word that was in the conversations to see if your computer has moved it elsewhere?

Edited by mxdi on Tuesday 20th June 08:58

spitfire-ian

4,243 posts

258 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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mxdi said:
just found this...

MSN Messenger saves a maximum of 8,192 messages to your computer. Once this limit has been reached, you can archive or delete your older messages. Archiving will save your message history as a separate file. Deleting will remove your oldest messages to create room for new messages.

also says it should give you the option to delete or archive. Have you tried doing a search for a phrase or unusual word that was in the conversations to see if your computer has moved it elsewhere?


When you archive the log it normally renames the log file as <contactname>1 and creates a new file as the current one. Obviously the successive archives become 2,3,4, etc.

That figure of 8,192 I think is per message contact. Most of my contacts are still on the first one but I have gone onto 3 or 4 with a couple of them.

ali_kat

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32,155 posts

251 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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I've searched the whole computer (well, I had the computer search the whole computer )

No luck

Obviously meant to be.

I'm not as upset about it now as I was last night - which is good

Thanks for all the help!!!

vixpy1

42,699 posts

294 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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ali_kat said:
I've searched the whole computer (well, I had the computer search the whole computer )

No luck

Obviously meant to be.

I'm not as upset about it now as I was last night - which is good

Thanks for all the help!!!


you've searched the entire pc for *.xml files?

ali_kat

Original Poster:

32,155 posts

251 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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Sad isn't it.

But it's morning now, and I don't care that they've gone anymore

Yay me!!!

Marki

15,763 posts

300 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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ali_kat said:


Sad isn't it.

But it's morning now, and I don't care that they've gone anymore

Yay me!!!



Fickle Female

vixpy1

42,699 posts

294 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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Marki said:
ali_kat said:


Sad isn't it.

But it's morning now, and I don't care that they've gone anymore

Yay me!!!



Fickle Female


They all do that sir

ali_kat

Original Poster:

32,155 posts

251 months

Tuesday 20th June 2006
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vixpy1 said:
Marki said:
ali_kat said:


Sad isn't it.

But it's morning now, and I don't care that they've gone anymore

Yay me!!!



Fickle Female


They all do that sir