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Originally posted by MegaScience
Edit: Found it at C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\MessengerCache. Maybe this could be in some documentation... Meh.
Note: Those directories highly depend on how your system is set up: admin account, multiple normal user accounts, no accounts, etc... The directories will change according to this... For example, on my XPSP3 system the MessengerCache is in C:\Windows\Temp\.
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Originally posted by MegaScience
Edit2: I composed a simple batch code to simply throw all the files into another folder as Jpg images. Maybe it can be of use.
code:
copy "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\MessengerCache\*" "F:\<username>\Desktop\Pics\MessengerCache\*.jpg"
pause
Small note: not all images are JPGs! Many of them are actually PNGs and even some are GIFs, and there also other types of files in that cache.
Renaming them all to JPG might work if you have a picture viewer which doesn't care about the file extension but actually looks at the binary contents of the file to determine the type of image.
But even so, you should be carefull with that. Not all programs ignore the extension and thus you might come across "
invalid image" errors in various programs and you might mistakenly think the images are corrupted because of that, while in fact it is just their file extension which is wrong.
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