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Where is the message History File saved?

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If enabled, MSN Messenger stores your message history in a relatively obscure location, but it's easily discovered.

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Where is the message History File saved?

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I'll assume you mean MSN Messenger.

Fire up Messenger, Select Tools, Options, Messages, and near the bottom of that dialog you'll find the Message History setting. Enable that and you can see where the message history files are stored or specify the location yourself.

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Article C1955 - May 29, 2004

Leo Leo A. Notenboom has been playing with computers since he was required to take a programming class in 1976. An 18 year career as a programmer at Microsoft soon followed. After "retiring" in 2001, Leo started Ask Leo! in 2003 as a place for answers to common computer and technical questions. More about Leo.

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i have my msn messenger set up so it saves my conversation but i cant find them anywhere in my computer, how can i fix this...they never get save,,

Posted by: jhoan at June 2, 2010 2:15 PM

You explained how to find my chat history (conversations) on my pc but are my conversations stored only on MY PC or like my emails on MSN's big computer because if it's like emails: can I read my conversations from any pc?

Message history is saved only on the computer you're using, and only if you enable the feature.
Leo
10-Jun-2010

Posted by: Viiio at June 10, 2010 7:16 PM

i have set my msn messenger so that my conversations are saved, but i cant find them back in the received documents map and my father is also able to find my msn conversations when i havent even saved them in the received documents map. how are both situations possible?

Posted by: mattie at June 24, 2010 5:11 AM

hiiii... i have unchecked the bar tht says automatically save my conversations on msn... but still there is some wayy my brother cann recover my chat historyy... please suggest me a way to to delete alll myy msn chat historyy.. or could it be get deleted if i reinstall my windows?? i would really appreciate your answer thanks

Posted by: eezaaan at October 16, 2010 3:05 PM

the stock file extension that it saves to is C:\Users\(your user)\Documents\My Received Files\
thats what a lot of the comments were asking

Posted by: Daxton at April 17, 2011 10:11 AM
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