Shoutbox

It would be really nice if it was possible to set the log naming in the settings instead of the registry. Is this possible to include in a future update?

MsgPlus registry edits are designed for proficient users to adjust things to their personal liking and in my personal opinion standard/less-skilled users wouldn't really need to rename their chat logs so it shouldn't be included in the preferences as it will only create confusion and something like this will result in a lot of users causing accidental issues with how their chat logs are recorded.

Well, the standard format on the naming really could be better. Since they are sorted via the file name the order isn't chronological.

Chat logs aren't supposed to be chronological, but are supposed to be saved per user. This is how it currently is also done.

If you mean the creation of the directories (for archiving), in the preferences you can already choose between archiving based upon date/time or archiving based upon email. If you wanna tweak this further you need to alter it in the rergistry. For most users the default settings (weither it is date/time or name) are more than sufficient.

"december 1999" comes before "april 2007" in the listings (since they are sorted alphabetically). Not very user friendly.

It doesn't matter if the logs are saved ona a user or date basis, the problem itself remains.

(And yes, I have finally taken the time to edit the registry and change name on 700 log files)

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Originally posted by skorpan
"december 1999" comes before "april 2007" in the listings (since they are sorted alphabetically). Not very user friendly.

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Ok, I agree on this point - it is somewhat annoying that the month folders are arranged alphabetically (in the Chat Log Viewer) as opposed to chronologically.

can't you sort by creation date?

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Originally posted by Voldemort
can't you sort by creation date?

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Not in the Chat Log Viewer unless I'm missing something =/

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Originally posted by Volv

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Originally posted by skorpan
"december 1999" comes before "april 2007" in the listings (since they are sorted alphabetically). Not very user friendly.

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Ok, I agree on this point - it is somewhat annoying that the month folders are arranged alphabetically (in the Chat Log Viewer) as opposed to chronologically.

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I agree also with this point. But that is why there are those resgistry settings I suppose.

So unless Patchou changes the default very radically to the international numerical ISO format yyyy-mm-dd (which is very strange to a lot of people, especially to those who are not very computer-literate), the only option would be to alter it yourself to your own likings in the registry.

As you can't use any other sorting routine than alphabetically to list those folders.

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Originally posted by Voldemort
can't you sort by creation date?

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It is possible to program it like that, but that wouldn't be a true fix though. Folders can be copied, backed up, moved, etc. All this would make sorting on creation date useless to fix this, since it still wont be the right order.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by Voldemort
can't you sort by creation date?

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It is possible to program it like that, but that wouldn't be a true fix though. Folders can be copied, backed up, moved, etc. All this would make sorting on creation date useless to fix this, since it still wont be the right order.

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Therefore you sort them via the default value. It is quite easy to read out the month name from the file or folder name. If they match the standard format (month year) it's a very simple task to sort them correctly in the log viewer.