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November 21, 2008  
Subject: LOST history of 1 Contact
Group: microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger
Date: 9/4/2008 4:01:12 PM
From: =?Utf-8?B?TW9uaXF1ZQ==?= [Email Address Protection]

For some reason I lost the message History of one contact , tthe option when
I want to view it is not there anymore. The rest is fine. Any idea Why???
some configuration I did? It has to do with some settings?
any help?

thanks

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Subject: Re: LOST history of 1 Contact
Group: microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger
Date: 9/4/2008 6:58:07 PM
From: "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" [Email Address Protection]

Greetings Monique,

There's a few possibilities for why this happened. Besides being deleted, your contact may
have changed their Windows Live ID address, which will alienate the old history.

To find the old one, open up any Messenger window, then press the Alt key on the keyboard to
bring up the menu bar, choose Tools, then Options and then Messages category. Take note of
the Message History folder and then finally go to it within Windows. Normally, it will be in
a folder within the My Received Files within your Documents folder. Once you get there,
you'll see a bunch of XML files which you can open within your web browser. Hopefully you'll
be able to determine which is your contacts and open/archive what it is you're looking for.

Also, if you're using Windows Vista or Windows Desktop Search on XP, you can also just use
the search tools within Windows to locate these files as they will have been indexed.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"Monique" <Monique@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:737766C1-D95D-4C81-8D7C-AF8C950B5B69@microsoft.com...
> For some reason I lost the message History of one contact , tthe option when
> I want to view it is not there anymore. The rest is fine. Any idea Why???
> some configuration I did? It has to do with some settings?
> any help?
>
> thanks



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