How do u delete I'm conversations in SL viewer

[Myfanwy Acer]

I want to know how to delete IM conversations in SL viewer

[valerie Inshan]

By default, Second Life automaticallys saves local chat and IM conversations to log files on your hard drive. These are not saved in the viewer.  Here's how to find your IMs records:

Log files

Log files are saved to a location that depends on you operating system:

• Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\SecondLife\Avatarname\chat.txt
• Windows 7 and Vista: C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife\chat.txt
• Mac OSX: Users/Username/Library/Application Support/SecondLife/Avatarname/chat.txt

Where Username is your system account name and Avatarname is your Second Life username.

Important: You may need to enable your file browser's ability to view hidden files to access your chat logs at their default location.

To delete the IMs, just send the "chat.txt" to your trash bin on your computer and empty it. 

 

[Nyll Bergbahn]

To add to Val's great answer, you can stop SL logging IM and chat conversations in the future by unticking those default options in Me > Preferences > Privacy > Chat Logs.

[Lindal Kidd]

Also, your viewer will automatically show, in grayed out form, the end of your last conversation with that person.  I don't know of a way to delete that.

Question:  WHY do you want to delete IMs?  You can delete your own IM and chat logs, as the others have said, but the other person can keep their own logs, and you can't delete those.  In addition, LL logs EVERYTHING, in case of Abuse Report complaints, and you certainly can't delete those logs!

The bottom line is, once you say something, it can't be unsaid.  Much like Real Life!

EDIT:  Thank you, Nyll!  I have always kept logs, so I didn't know that.

[Nyll Bergbahn]

@ Lindal.

The viewer only loads previous chat in grayed out form if you have the IMs already stored on your hard drive so if you untick save to hard drive, they never appear. Linden Lab only retain conversations for 14 days far as I know. Can't do anything about logs on other computers of course.