I posted this question in another thread but I decided to make a new thread for more exposure. Can muggins/moods/winks be backed up? Thanks

They would be on the computer somewhere when i was looking for my display pictures once sunshine gave an great answer to where they were. I can't remember it though

*Absorbation bangs his head to he remembers.

Somewhere under Documents and Settings (XP users).

I dont know because Msn 7 final crashes on me, but should be together or close to CE and DPs.. C:\Documents and Settings\Mighty Freddy\Application Data\Microsoft\MSN Messenger

Replace Might Freddy with your own username.. and then you have a folder where you can search!

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\<passport id>\

all the stuff is in there, just back up the whole folder

<user> is your windows username

<passport id> can be found with this program

How about these:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\<MSN ID Number>\DeluxeDisplayPictures
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\<MSN ID Number>\Winks2
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\<MSN ID Number>\Winks3

well, i already posted it, and then  Lee Jeffery posts again adding something else, and now you post again! the next guy that posts probably is offering remote asistance to help in the back up of the folders! Everyone that can read, could get there with my post anyway!

crap

yeh, but u didnt say nething about msn ID numbers lol

dere pretty confusing if u dont know what they are.

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Originally posted by Fredzz
well, i already posted it, and then  Lee Jeffery posts again adding something else, and now you post again! the next guy that posts probably is offering remote asistance to help in the back up of the folders! Everyone that can read, could get there with my post anyway!

crap

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I said sunshine is helpful with that

Thanks. I got them!

Does this mean you can copy them to another user folder and that person will get them too?

Why doesnt someone make a program where you just enter your Passport Address, it generates the ID and backs up the files to your desktop in a folder "MSN Backups".  , I would, but I dont know how the Passport Address ID works, and im not great and manipulating files yet.

so you can send people your ddps and place them in that folder? would they have your DDPS?

I just tried that with a friend and it appears that it did not work.

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Originally posted by steVenB
I just tried that with a friend and it appears that it did not work.

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I have W2000, and can't find the folder "messenger" in the path you mentioned...  any help, pls??

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Originally posted by anikillaytor
I have W2000, and can't find the folder "messenger" in the path you mentioned...  any help, pls??

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I had always enabled.

i think i found them in another path... the files have the extension .dat?

I found them in
C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Datos de programa\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\1786787163\CustomEmoticons

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Originally posted by anikillaytor
I had always enabled.

i think i found them in another path... the files have the extension .dat?

I found them in
C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Datos de programa\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\1786787163\CustomEmoticons

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Originally posted by Dane
Why doesnt someone make a program where you just enter your Passport Address, it generates the ID and backs up the files to your desktop in a folder "MSN Backups".  , I would, but I dont know how the Passport Address ID works, and im not great and manipulating files yet.

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ooohhh ok...
the thing is that you said "aplication data", and I have a file "aplication data", and another file "datos de programa"...

thanks for your help!!

are there  AAAAAAALLL the emoticons I have?

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Originally posted by anikillaytor
ooohhh ok...
the thing is that you said "aplication data", and I have a file "aplication data", and another file "datos de programa"...

thanks for your help!!

are there  AAAAAAALLL the emoticons I have?

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do i have to back up anything else to keep all my old winks/emoticons?? i just reinstaled the system, but i don't get any of my icons even i copied the backup folder into that directory..... hmmmmm

oh thanks a lot to sunshine and everyone else this is exactly what i needed thanks

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Originally posted by Dane
Why doesnt someone make a program where you just enter your Passport Address, it generates the ID and backs up the files to your desktop in a folder "MSN Backups".  , I would, but I dont know how the Passport Address ID works, and im not great and manipulating files yet.

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* CookieRevised looks at all the posts

This is the same old story as with Custom emoticons and Display pictures...

MSN Messenger stores everything in it's useuall cache folders...
see: CookieRevised's reply to re-name display pics?

The files themselfs are renamed, just like CE's and DP's. But simply copying them to back them up isn't enough (just as with CE's and DP's). In every directory there is also a cache file. This file holds the hashes, names, locations, whatever for your CE's, DP's, winks, muggins, etc. And this file is encrypted and encoded.

This means you can not simply copy everything and paste it into someone elses directory and expect it to work. If you want to add them again, you must do it one by one (and first rename them to the proper file extension again) via MSN Messenger itself...

There are "backup" programs for CE's and DP's (see http://www.sherv.net/), but they do also exactly that, adding all the stuff back via MSN Messenger. I'm sure such backup programs will be made also for winks and stuff, just be patient and keep an eye on sites like mess.be, msnfanatic.com, sherv.net, etc...


PS: and as for those directories where everything is stored, if you search the forums you'll find tons of posts already mentioning it...

backing up winks/moods by Monkey:

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Originally posted by Monkey

Ok I think I got it.
First get WMBackupper.
Unzip it in a folder without other files in it.
Now open the .exe and fill in your e-mail.
Click on Get Winks.
Depending on how many winks you have/had this may take a few minutes. Here it took around 5 minutes I guess, dunno why it takes so long to decrypt the file.
Anyway when finished it gives a messagebox and in the same folder as the .exe you'll now see a lot of .MCO files. ( and probably a cabarc.exe file which I used to create the cabs )
Okay, if you don't know how to install MCO files you can use another simple program from me.
Unzip the .exe to something like C:\Program Files\Local MCO Installer.
Then Right-Click a mco file and choose open with.
Choose program and search for the program you've just unzipped.
Now if everything went fine it will install the .mco file again.
(you can only install one file at a time with that program)

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