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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by blueirisflower

Let's say it IS somewhere on my computer, but it's lost. How would I go about finding it?
Search your HDD for a specific string used in the conversation. But don't search on unicode characters or other 'special' characters which might be encoded when saved in a XML/HTML file.

And by searching HDD I don't mean using Windows build-in file search utility because that has the tendancy to skip certain files (Microsoft's way of being 'intelligent' and helping the user :rolleyes:). You better use a tool which can realy scan your HDD byte by byte, like a disk editor. It will take a long time, but in that way you will be sure that everything is searched _and_ possibly deleted data is searched too.


OK, guess what happened?  I was just about to ask a friend of mine for help searching for it with a disk editor as you mentioned - and I clicked on the folder where my logs were supposed to be saved.... Lo and behold my most recent chat log was there!

It happened at around 9 pm a few hours after my last talk. It just appeared, but it's not the first one which is the one I want.

How do you think this happened? Was it just some kind of delay in saving and it just suddenly "woke up"?

It just seems to be working fine now. But I am still confuddled as to why it only started saving it now O.o?

I'm still going to try to do as you mentioned just to make sure the chat log I want is/isn't there. But this is all so unusual.
02-19-2011 10:48 AM
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RE: Help on MSN Chat History (missing history) - by blueirisflower on 02-17-2011 at 10:37 AM
RE: RE: Help on MSN Chat History (missing history) - by Menthix on 02-17-2011 at 02:49 PM
RE: RE: Help on MSN Chat History (missing history) - by CookieRevised on 02-17-2011 at 05:04 PM
RE: RE: RE: Help on MSN Chat History (missing history) - by blueirisflower on 02-17-2011 at 06:53 PM
RE: RE: Help on MSN Chat History (missing history) - by CookieRevised on 02-18-2011 at 01:45 AM
RE: RE: Help on MSN Chat History (missing history) - by blueirisflower on 02-18-2011 at 06:01 PM
RE: RE: Help on MSN Chat History (missing history) - by CookieRevised on 02-18-2011 at 06:29 PM
RE: RE: RE: Help on MSN Chat History (missing history) - by blueirisflower on 02-19-2011 at 10:48 AM


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