Shoutbox

I've read the portion about why it takes so long to log, and thats fine. My problem is that my chat logs are separating by each conversation, for example, when I open a conversation, message, then close, it records as:

Blahblah@hotmail.com.txt

.. but if I were to open, message and close again it would appear as a new file:

Blahblah@hotmail.com(2).txt


Is there a way that I can clump them together so it wont make a new file everytime?

My other problem is that I have so many of these separate files for people I talk to more often, that some of the files are appearing blank when I open them.

For example: 

Blahblah@hotmail.com (4).txt
Blahblah@hotmail.com (5).txt
Blahblah@hotmail.com (6 ).txt

all of these text files when I open them have nothing in them.

Also, I'm using the newest version, 4.23.0.276, on Windows XP.

Thank you!

Oh and also, for some reason those chat logs keep scrambling up the dates... for example, for Sept 14 it will be logged in

Blahblah@hotmail.com (4).txt, but then for Sept 15 it will be in Blahblah@hotmail.com (5).txt, and 5 days later, back to the (4).txt!

If anyone can explain this I'd be very happy. Otherwise, could someone suggest another chat log program?

And this is what it looks like. I hope the drawing is self explainatory.

When I click on the ones with the green boxes beside them, nothing shows up.


Thanks beforehand to anyone who can help.

Do you usually chat with some groups of contacts in a single window?

This occurs when you chat  with the same contact in more than one conversation window (group chatting).

Nope; these are separating when I open the window, message, close, then reopen to message. It seems to appear blank for majority of the following logs as well.

anybody else wioth the problem? this is really strange.

I think I might be the only one. I've tried re-installing it a few times... but it still isn't working.

Can anyone help?

I've tried disabling the Messenger Plus! chat logs and using the chat logs from windows messenger, but that doesn't seem to be working either.

Currently, only the Messenger Plus! chat logs are enabled (with the windows messenger logs disabled)... and yet it still doesn't work. It seems to be logging only the first conversation of the month now; the rest of my conversations are not appearing.

Please help. Thank you.

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Originally posted by Patchou
anybody else wioth the problem? this is really strange.

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I've had this before. I think its because something the chatlog isn't editable by plus or is in use then in creates such files, not sure though. This only used to occur with contacts i used to have long convos with. It got fixed on its own.

Yea!! It seems to happen a lot to chat logs that are much larger.
How exactly did it go away on it's own though? Was there anything that you did to get rid of this problem?