Shoutbox

heh I sent this originally as a PM to Patchou but then realized just now that hey, dude prolly has PM'ing turned off because of how many he must get in the run of a day.  Patchou is not everyone's bitch

So now I'm just doing a normal thread in the hopes that someone can help me.....

Okay I am running three different versions of msn on one hardrive.  I like the skin I have for 7.0, I have 7.5 for the foolish voice clippy feature, and I'm trying wlm.

What I essentually did to keep all three versions on my computer was created a new folder in my c:/programfiles directory.  Before I installed 7.5 I created a folder called msn2 and copied everything in the original default install path for msn (c:/programfiles/msnmessenger) into the msn2 folder.  I did the same thing when I installed wlm only I copied the default folder into msn3.  With patches and such I am able to run all three messengers simulatneously.  Wheeee.

OS = xp pro
version of plus = always latest version
running latest mess patch for each version (except of course wlm)
skin for 7.0 matrix
skin for 7.5 bidiblue
wlm: no skin unpatched

Hokay so now that the background specs have been declared onto my problem: when I copied everything, I noticed my chatlogs did something weird, they started over.  Everything that had been said for the month's current document was gone.  In my chatlogs folder, I have generic windows icons for what I believe to be my broken logs now titled contact1@hotmail.com.ple.1  When I try to open them in notepad, they don't ask me for my password and it opens up all weird computer language or something.

What is the ple.1 file extension on the end?
I assume it's because I moved the program to a new folder and messed a bunch of stuff up that something conflicts and breaks my chatlogs, and if that's the problem okay.  I can live with that.  But I was just wondering if there was a fix and if it's possible to salvage my lost chatlogs?

The xml logs that msnmessenger provides open up clearly, but I find they can lose stuff depending on random boots, not shutting msn down properly etc etc so I dont trust them as much.

Thanks for your time and I'm sorry it's so long winded

*cheers*
Jamie;0)