Currently, when saving chat history, each archive is 3-5MB in size.

Over a long period of time, this has meant that I currently have 15-20 Archives of history .XML files for a particular contact.

If I am searching for a particular word, this means that I have to search for the word in each of the archives rather than being able to search through them all as one.

Is there a way to combine all my XML history archives into 1, or, the real question I am seeking an answer to:

Is there a way to increase the maximum file size of Chat History files?

I look forward to your response!
Thanks in advance,
Mike

You can't increase the max file size without patching Messenger.

However, be advised that the limit is there for a very good reason: speed. The larger the files get the slower it becomes to save each line of text. Even with the current max size you sometimes even notice this delay.

You could combine existing logs, but that requires some knowledge of XML because it isn't as simple as just copying one log after the other into a new file. There is currently no tool that I know of which can automatically merge native Messenger xml logs.

Thanks for the information
Much appreciated.
Mike

Yes there is an MSN History Merger. Worked like a charm 20 minutes ago.

Here's the link.
http://www.codeplex.com/MsnHistoryMerger

For your case you're probably gonna have to merge more than once since it takes 2 origin folders and merges it into one. So what I would try is this system.

Let's say you have 20 different history folders. You'd do this:

History folder 1 merged with History folder 2 = Merged History 1

Then go on and try this:

Merged History 1 merged with History folder 3 = Merged History 2
Merged History 2 merged with History folder 4 = Merged History 3

and so on and so forth.

You can try googling to see if you find something that can take more than just 2 origin folders but for now this is probably your best bet.

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Originally posted by Tigeron
Yes there is an MSN History Merger. Worked like a charm 20 minutes ago.

Here's the link.
http://www.codeplex.com/MsnHistoryMerger

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