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Encrypted Chat Logs by Stan on 10-08-2005 at 05:26 PM
Is there any way to easily mass decrypt all/a selection of my Plus! chat logs?
RE: Encrypted Chat Logs by qgroessl on 10-08-2005 at 05:38 PM
I think you can decrypt them all through the plus configuration menu. I can't check right now cause I'm on a different computer.... but I'm almost postive that you can encrypt/decrypt all of your logs at once through the Msg Plus Menu.
RE: Encrypted Chat Logs by hexel on 10-08-2005 at 06:02 PM
I think unticking the option 'Encrypt all my logs to protect my privacy' from Plus! -> Preferences -> Privacy Protection should decrypt them..
RE: Encrypted Chat Logs by Stan on 10-08-2005 at 06:31 PM
Yeah, I was hoping there'd be another way as I have over 1000 log files :/
RE: Encrypted Chat Logs by huwnet on 10-08-2005 at 09:56 PM
It should be a feature. It would also be nice to mass decrypt then rencrypt with a different password
RE: RE: Encrypted Chat Logs by CookieRevised on 10-08-2005 at 10:05 PM
quote:Disable the encryption option in Plus! > Preferences > Privacy Protection > Passwords > Encrypt all my logs to protect my privacy.
Originally posted by Stan
Is there any way to easily mass decrypt all/a selection of my Plus! chat logs?
After you press "Apply" or "OK", Plus! will ask for the old password used on your logs.
All the logs located in the main log directory will be decrypted using that old password you entered (Thus not the logs inside the archived subdirectories!).
A small problem with this is that it stops decrypting logs if it encounters a log which was encrypted with a different password. But Plus! will ask to continue decrypting the other files if that happens, so answer "yes" to that question.
Of course, the ones encrypted with a different password will not be decrypted. For this you need to repeat the process, but of course enter the correct password for those files.
To repeat the process you need to
1) enable the encryption again, enter and confirm the new password
2) press "ok" or "apply" and Plus! will ask if it needs to re-encrypt everything, answer "no"...
3) disable the encryption again, press "ok" or "apply" and enter the old password used on those few other files which weren't decrypted in the first batch run...
As said, this decrypts everything in the main log directory, thus to only decrypt a selection move the logs you don't want to be decrypted temporary to a different directory than your main log directory.
quote:Set another password, confirm the new password and press "OK" or "Apply"... and it will re-encrypt all your previous logs after you stated the old password (in the main log directory; thus not the ones in the archive subdirectories).
Originally posted by huwnet
It would also be nice to mass decrypt then rencrypt with a different password