Where are emoticons stored? - Printable Version

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Where are emoticons stored? by alegator on 10-17-2005 at 12:14 AM

Are emoticons regular gif files? what is the location where they are stored? Thanks
(I want to use one emoticon as an email gif attachment)

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by guanako on 10-17-2005 at 12:21 AM

they are .dat files, if want to use them u need to renamed them to .gif files

c:\documents and settings\user\application data\microsoft\msn messenger\account number\custom emoticons

*Be sure to turn on show hidden files and folders.

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by kierant on 10-17-2005 at 12:23 AM

With 170 posts I assume you're a regular user of these forums and know the rules (ie search before posting). This is a commonly asked question and there are dozens of threads on the matter. I suggest searching the forums....I believe Cookie has gone in to great detail on this topic.

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by alegator on 10-17-2005 at 12:28 AM

I tried searching these topic in this forum and couldn't find a post that detailed the location. Sorry and thanks.

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by kierant on 10-17-2005 at 12:39 AM

(Y) Ok fair enough.

I did a quick search and found this post from Cookie:

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Your DP's, CE's, ...

Your own Display Pics, Custom Emoticons and Backgrounds and other stuff are all stored in your MSN Messenger application data directory. These directories are different from OS to OS and depend on what you're exactly looking for:
CookieRevised's reply to 'where is custom stuff stored?'

Contact's DP's, CE's, ...

The Display Pictures and Custom Emoticons you've recieved from your contacts are stored in your cache in your "Temporary Internet Files"-folder. These are also stored as PNG's. Their filenames are named as CA<6_characters>.BIN.

And this is the exact place where "Display Picture Stealers" will look for the pictures and emoticons of your contacts. So if you delete your temporary internet files then no DP-stealer will find anything because nothing is there to find. For more details see:
CookieRevised's reply to 'How do CE/DP stealers work and do I need them?'
CookieRevised's reply to 'Non-Spyware CE/DP stealer/exporters'

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by alegator on 10-17-2005 at 07:36 AM

Kierant, maybe you handle search keywords better than I do...thanks

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by Yousef on 10-17-2005 at 07:45 AM

Everybody's assuming he means the Custom Emoticons, but he might want to know where the standard emoticons are stored. I think thery're stored in the .exe itself, and you'd need to use something like ResHacker to extract them. But you can also find a list here.

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by JohnB on 11-07-2005 at 10:33 PM

Try MSN Backup, Free and works great! Foor backup and install of emoticons, winks, moods, backgrounds etc.

A Realy cool and handy tool

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by guanako on 11-07-2005 at 10:41 PM

quote:
Originally posted by JohnB
Try MSN Backup, Free and works great! Foor backup and install of emoticons, winks, moods, backgrounds etc.

A Realy cool and handy tool

Link?

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by matty on 11-07-2005 at 11:31 PM

quote:
Originally posted by guanako

quote:
Originally posted by JohnB
Try MSN Backup, Free and works great! Foor backup and install of emoticons, winks, moods, backgrounds etc.

A Realy cool and handy tool

Link?

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by guanako on 11-07-2005 at 11:49 PM

gosh ok here it is for whoever needs it
http://www.baisoft.it/msnbackup_english.asp 8-)

RE: Where are emoticons stored? by Val3r10 on 11-13-2005 at 07:30 PM

Hi. I tried to use this MsnBackup soft because I would transfer my MSN settings to a new pc.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem working on MSN 7.5, because I have many custom emoticons and it hasn't found any.

Is there any other way to export/import msn configuration and emoticons ?
Thanks for your kind answer.