IM History help!!

[Anna06 Rebane]

I've tried looking in "C:\Documents and Settings\<pc-login-id>Application Data\SecondLife\<sl-login-name>" to view my IM history, but nothing comes up, help! What do I do??

[LoveAngeL Lyre]

Hello Anna and welcome to SL Forums. Check out under Preferences --> Privacy if you have enabled the options:

• Save nearby chat logs on my computer
• Save IM logs on my computer

and also (from the same tab) if you have changed the location of logs.

 

[valerie Inshan]

These are the paths to the chat and IM logs (only available if you enabled saving them to your hard drive in your preferences):

 

Chat and IM logs

If you have chat or IM logging enabled, Second Life will automatically save your conversations to your hard drive. By default, the Viewer saves chat logs to a standard location on your hard drive that depends on your operating system. For example, where Username is your system user name and Avatarname is your Second Life account or display name:

• 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

[Charolotte Caxton]

The app data is usually a hidden folder. You may need to enable view hidden folders to see it.

[Wolwaner Jervil]

I have set the folder to save my IM and chat log to my own defined folder on a harddrive.

So there is no interference with SL Settings and things will stay there (unfortunately one has to set/check it at new installs). Up to now the settings survived the updates.

Note that the chat log (chat.txt) will become large after some time - so I do a rename from time to time (like Chat01-06.2011) to keep it smaller.

At current, IM's sent to E-Mail will not be preserved when you login - so they get lost in between.

Greets, Wol