Add previously saved convos into AIM+ History?

[vipul12]

Is there any way to add previously saved AIM Convos into the AIM+ History? I tried to navigate to where the AIM+ History was installed, and just add my previously saved convo into the folder of the person i was talking to, but it didn't show up when i went to the AIM+ History. I was wondering if there is a way to do this and add previous manually saved convos into the AIM+ History? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as it would make it much easier to navigate through my old saved convos. Thank you ahead of time.

[Big-O Mark]

Yes, you can add previously saved conversations to your AIM+ directories. Just move the old converation into your "AIM+ History/User/Buddy" directory, with "User" being your screenname, and "buddy" being the buddy your conversation with. Make sure your conversation is saved with a ".html" extension or it will not show up in the history viewer's list of conversations. The file does not have to follow AIM+'s convention for naming files, it can be "old.html" or whatever you want, and it will show up in the history viewer.

[vipul12]

Thank you for your help. The problem was that my saved file was in the .HTM format instead of the .HTML. i would've never noticed this until you told me. thank you again.

[Big-O Mark]

No problem. I actually just tested while I was posting to see if .htm would work as well as .html, and when it didn't, I assumed that was probably why it wasn't working for you :).

[alimaui]

I figured out own about the history folder, but my old conversations that I have "dropped" there are not being recognized in the history viewwer within AIM+. They are saved as HTML files... ANy other suggestions?

Ali
*Grateful for the help!

[Big-O Ryan]

My only guess is that they are not in the right folder. I tested this out with some files myself, and as long as a file is named with a '.html' extension (case INsensitive), AIM+ history viewer will pick it up.

Remember, your history files need to be in a subfolder of a subfolder within your history folder (just like the history files AIM+ generates).

Aside from this, I'm not sure why they wouldn't be listed (restarting the history viewer might help, but shouldn't even be necessary).

[alimaui]

Yea, I got the whole subfolder thing. Some of the previous convos (pc) I just dropped into already existing folders. The others that I had no folders for I created forders in the same way as history created them (with username). The new names show up in history list, but no joy on the pc. I think I shall do some more "fiddling" and see what I can come up with....unless you have anymore suggestions.

Ali

[AzNBoY0325]

Instead of adding a previously saved conversation into the history sub-subfolder, is there a way to add on to an already saved conversation (like filling the history gaps manually) but without going into each of the conversation sources and copying and pasting

[killcrap]

well in windows xp if u copy a folder on to an existing folder, it will keep the files that are already inside, and replaces the files that have the same name,. i was wondering if u could maybe add an import feature that appends files together so logs arent replaced

[superfastkyle]

That would definately be a good feature to add. A import fuction that would append to already saved conversations. I don't always use the same computer and I know alot of us don't. Its kinda annoying to have a history on my laptop and a different one on my pc.