Can I retrieve old MSN Messenger conversations?

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Peter: Just a rumor. I don't believe it.

Leo
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Candy: you can't.

Leo
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I know we've asked so many times but I'm so confused...

If a conversation that was never saved doesn't hit the disk does that mean the expensive forensic recovery thing can not retrieve it?

Also, if there is the chance that the conversations that were never saved did hit the hard drive disk but the conversation occured years ago is it possible for the expensive forensic recovery thing to still retrieve it or would it be over written by now

thank you so much!

Probably this software can help you: [url]http://www.bestsoftware4download.com/software/t-free-message-history-import-export-for-msn-download-duevkjoq.html[/url]

Ok everybody out there looking for convo historys. If you saved then deleted them you can get them back. many of the simple undelete programs will do it. you have 60000000kb in a 60gig Hdd small for todays terms. and the average convo is for arguments sake 500kb. Unless that particular 500kb was writen over you can get it back easily. As far as forensic teams from data years ago. The department of us defence uses 24 passes using secure wiping programs. That is wiping and re writing 24 times and there are still people out there who can get the data back. So its in there somewhere. if you diddnt save the history there may be a temp file of it but it will be stored on a small segment of the harddrive (sorry dont know where) and will be wiped over multiple times in a short time. not detectable by your average free recovery software

Does MSN messenger save messages in any other place on my computer other than what you have described?? I have my message history off, and see no message history in my files, but i have been told MSN stores messages in other places? Is this true?

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No, not that I'm aware of. The only hope might be to ask the
person you were IMing with if they had kept a log.

Leo

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Sorry to disagree but By default MSN Messenger V7.5 logs Chat.If you look in My Documents > My Chat Logs.
May have to enable Show hidden files in Explorer
>Folder Options> View > Show hidden files.

i have a MAC laptop and MAC msn and i've tried really hard but i can't seem to find a way to recover my unsaved conversation.
I REALLY need to recover it, as soon as possible. If you don't have any ideas on how to figure it out, do have any as to how i could even find that out?
thanks

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I don't believe it's possible.

Leo

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