Hello there,
I have been searching and searching for a way to automatically have a shared photo save to my HD.  It is kind of a pain to click on the 'disk' icon to download the hi-res photos.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Jeff

I know this is a massive bump, but I have the same question. Is this possible to be done through Messenger Plus?

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Originally posted by MegaScience
I know this is a massive bump, but I have the same question. Is this possible to be done through Messenger Plus?

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
-Not via scripting. If something like this is to be added it needs to be added as a buildin feature in Plus! itself.

An alternative would be to completely disable photosharing (by hacking Messenger) and enable auto-accept file requests.

Other than that, let your contacts zip all the photo's and enable 'auto-accept for files' in Messenger Plus!. This will automatically save the recieved files in your recieved files folder set in Messenger.

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Ah, so you want to save images which the author don't want you to save

In that case, you might indeed look for the cached images. Dunno exactly where they are stored though. Maybe someone else knows or can test it quickly (don't have the time to do it at the moment)

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Ah, so you want to save images which the author don't want you to save

In that case, you might indeed look for the cached images. Dunno exactly where they are stored though. Maybe someone else knows or can test it quickly (don't have the time to do it at the moment)

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Just tested using WLM 14.0.8117 on Windows Vista and the images got stored with a random filename in "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\MessengerCache".

Two images get created; a small one which is what you see down the side of the window in the "select photo" area, and the bigger image which you see in the conversation itself.

You can copy these files somewhere else and give them the right file extension to save them permanently, and it's possible to do this using a script, though you'd have to run it manually by entering a command or clicking a menu item - I'm not sure if it's possible to get it to run automatically when a photo sharing invite is accepted.

The only problem with the above is that the folder also gets used to store other things, such as display pictures, so you'd need to either look at all the pictures and select the right one, or find some other way of determining which files are the ones created by photo sharing.

There is also a folder at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Messenger\<your email>\ObjectStore\Photoshare which gets queried when photo sharing is started, but as far as I can tell, this just stores images that you share and not images sent to you...

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Originally posted by pollolibredegrasa
Just tested using WLM 14.0.8117 on Windows Vista and the images got stored with a random filename in "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\MessengerCache".

Two images get created; a small one which is what you see down the side of the window in the "select photo" area, and the bigger image which you see in the conversation itself.

You can copy these files somewhere else and give them the right file extension to save them permanently, and it's possible to do this using a script, though you'd have to run it manually by entering a command or clicking a menu item - I'm not sure if it's possible to get it to run automatically when a photo sharing invite is accepted.

The only problem with the above is that the folder also gets used to store other things, such as display pictures, so you'd need to either look at all the pictures and select the right one, or find some other way of determining which files are the ones created by photo sharing.

There is also a folder at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Messenger\<your email>\ObjectStore\Photoshare which gets queried when photo sharing is started, but as far as I can tell, this just stores images that you share and not images sent to you...

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copy "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\MessengerCache\*" "F:\<username>\Desktop\Pics\MessengerCache\*.jpg"
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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.

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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.

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copy "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\MessengerCache\*" "F:\<username>\Desktop\Pics\MessengerCache\*.jpg"
pause

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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 CookieRevised
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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Originally posted by MegaScience
Ah... I updated to SP3, and it still went there... Guess what Service Pack started out on matters.

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Originally posted by MegaScience
So far, setting the folder I sent these into to Thumbnail view has not shown problems. Everything in there came out displaying right, and 99% sure because of it checking binary while knowing they're images.

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Does the batch file need to be ran every time or would an automated start-up on Boot suffice?

I suppose a "folder synchronizing" application could be used, set to copy one way only.

Where did Windows Live Messenger's own "Shared Folder" go anyway? I've never used it, haven't kept track of it's updates or removal. Personally I would love a well designed Context Menu entry.

(Select files in any directory, right click, Send to > Messenger Contact > Name)

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Originally posted by Arcticwolfx
Does the batch file need to be ran every time or would an automated start-up on Boot suffice?

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Originally posted by Arcticwolfx
I suppose a "folder synchronizing" application could be used, set to copy one way only.

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Originally posted by Arcticwolfx
Where did Windows Live Messenger's own "Shared Folder" go anyway? I've never used it, haven't kept track of it's updates or removal.

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Originally posted by Arcticwolfx
Personally I would love a well designed Context Menu entry.
(Select files in any directory, right click, Send to > Messenger Contact > Name)

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Nope, service pack doesn't realy matter. It's how you have set up your user accounts (or lack of). And of course the OS you're using (XP, Vista, ...)

You can find the proper path by getting Windows' temporary directory (also see the Windows environment variable %TEMP% or %TMP%) and add "MessengerCache" to it.

Thus, for your batch file, this should return the proper path:
%TEMP%\MessengerCache

correct

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