Shoutbox

Situation:

I signed in using two .NET Passports: one in Windows Messenger and other in MSN Messenger. Suppose I talk to a contact using the .NET Passport in Windows Messenger. When I later talk to the same contact using the .NET Passport in MSN Messenger the Plus! Log file for the contact gets renamed to <mycontact>.txt.old and a new <mycontact>.txt is created. I wonder why Plus! is doing this. I was expecting it to append to the existing file?

Software:

MSN Messenger 6.2 / 7.0
Windows Messneger 5.1
Messenger Plus 3.40 latest BETA

Cheers,
McoreD

Because if it would simply append, chaotic/confusing and wrong logs will be created....


You could talk to the same person with both your .NET accounts and both .NET accounts can be different persons. Both of the .NET accounts will have their convo mixed up with the contact if it was "appended".

Furthermore, logs aren't save line per line but after a certain timeinterval.

The above would all contribute to malformed logs if they were appended. In short, there is nothing abnormal about it, in fact it is very logic that it is NOT appended...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Because if it would simply append, chaotic/confusing and wrong logs will be created....

You could talk to the same person with both your .NET accounts and both .NET accounts can be different persons.

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How can it be different persons I am talking to? There can only be one myfriendsnickname@hotmail.com in the whole world.

What CookieRevised means that it can be a different person signed in on your computer. This could result in both you and your brothers log files being mixed, for example

Thank you for replying.

But I still don't understand how that can happen. Me and my brother's My Chat Logs folder is not the same folder. My Chat Logs folder is in My Documents and my brother's My Documents will be in Brother's Documents.

Please explain.

Cheers,
McoreD

What if you have a friend come over and he wants to use Messenger for a moment and he signs in on your Windows account, where he talks to someone you have in your list as well? Those log files could get mixed

If you are signed in with two accounts and are talking to the same person on both accounts, and both conversations where saved to the same file, then in that chat log you would have both conversations mixed together.

Thank you. Last two replies were much better explanations. I can understand your point now.

But still I don't see how renaming the nickname@hotmail.com.txt to nickname@hotmail.com.old.txt is a solution. Once the chat log is renamed to nickname@hotmail.com.old.txt, it is not accessed by Plus! anymore. nickname@hotmail.com.txt keeps getting replaced everytime you talk to person from different .NET Passports.

A much better solution in my opinion would be saving the log files as follows:

My Chat Logs\<mynickname@hotmail.com>\<Year Month>\nickname@hotmail.com.txt

Currently it is:
My Chat Logs\<Year Month>\nickname@hotmail.com.txt

Thanks for understand.

Cheers,
McoreD

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Originally posted by TGG
If you are signed in with two accounts and are talking to the same person on both accounts, and both conversations where saved to the same file, then in that chat log you would have both conversations mixed together.

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yup
tested and confirmed

An option to make a folder per contact would solve this

Perhaps something like C:\Docum.....\My Documents\Chat logs\(email)

Where (email) would be an idividual .net passports logs