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A question regarding retrieving old chat messages

 
 
Reply Thu 28 Oct, 2004 10:08 am
ok ive been trying to find an old chat i had with someone.. ive always heard that you can always retrieve everything that has ever been on your computer, all your web searches, chats, everything no matter how many times you delete them.. well ive been trying to find an old chat that i had with someone on aim95, i did a find search for around the time i had the chat with the person and what i got were files with the location c:\windows\aim95\bartcache\1.. and the type was just a file

well i went to the file location and tried openeing the files but when i tried opening it with internet explorer it would just show the aim avatar of the person i was talking to at the time not the messages themselves..so i opened it with notepad hoping it would show the text but instead i got something that looks like this

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which makes absolutely no sense to me.. if anyone can tell me what i should do to open up old message, or locate old messages ive had please tell me.. and i dont think the aim version i had had a message archive
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sobriquet
 
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Reply Fri 29 Oct, 2004 06:15 pm
i'm afraid i can't be of much help, besides the fact that when you get that random text like that, it means you're opening a file format in software that cannot intepret it. (for example, try opening an image file in notepad) perhaps if you let us know what the format was, we could help you get the correct software. aside from that, there's logging software for aim that would make you're life a whole lot easier. Smile
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smileyfacedkiller
 
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Reply Fri 29 Oct, 2004 08:54 pm
yeah well the logging software wont log my old messages.. im not sure what type of file this is.. but does anyone know were on the harddrive stuff like messages get stored at?
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