Shoutbox

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Originally posted by dennistt
I had a problem a week or two ago.  Here's the situation:

I have Friend 1 as a contact of two accounts I have: Account A and Account B.
I use Account A, and have been talking to Friend 1, and have accumulated a chat log.
I log off Account A, and login to Account B.
Friend 1 messages me on Account B, and the chat log that was created for Friend 1 on Account A was deleted (there wasn't even a .txt.old or .old.txt.) and a new chat log was created.

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That should not occur and might be a bug.

But remember that it is never a good idea to have the chatlog directories the same for all the account you're using. There are always going to be problems if you do that.

Set a different directory for each account you use.

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Originally posted by dennistt
I like the idea of having the chat logs separated by account first

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They are and always have been

You simply set the logging directory to another directory for each account.

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Originally posted by dennistt
then by month, then the logs of each contact.

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Again, this is how it has always been (that is, archiving by date).

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Originally posted by ~*McoreD*~
Yeah, I agree with that too. Microsoft Messenger does it nicely that way too:
Also gaim.

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Actually it doesn't....

It only "sorts" them by account, just as before and just as Plus! also does (and Plus! can archive the chats for real! by month/date, messenger does not)...

What you see in that date/time window of messenger's chat log viewer is simply taken from that very same chatlog from "mcored@blablah". It is nothing more than a resume of what you will find in the log itself. The same goes for the "chats". Everything you see in that chat log viewer is nothing more than 1 file and all taken from that very same file, there is nothing sorted seperatly on your harddisk, it is all in 1 file (unsorted nota bene).

PS: please reduce the size of your screenshot, it messes up the thread layout.