LOST history of 1 Contact

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

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.

--
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
--




"Monique" <> wrote in message
news:737766C1-D95D-4C81-8D7C-...
> 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

Thanks a lot from your prompt response , I tried that but there is all of the
contactact logs except the one I lost. Maybe some one deleted by mistake, any
way to retrived this? it is not in the reciclyng either !! :-(



"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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
> --
>
>
>
>
> "Monique" <> wrote in message
> news:737766C1-D95D-4C81-8D7C-...
> > 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
>
>
>

Hi Monique,

Well you could try an undelete utility like:
http://www.undelete-plus.com

You know where the file should be and what it should be called, so if it's still around, it
shouldn't be that difficult to retrieve.

--
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
--


"Monique" <> wrote in message
news:984461B0-1486-4C83-AE00-...
> Thanks a lot from your prompt response , I tried that but there is all of the
> contactact logs except the one I lost. Maybe some one deleted by mistake, any
> way to retrived this? it is not in the reciclyng either !! :-(
>
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> 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
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Monique" <> wrote in message
>> news:737766C1-D95D-4C81-8D7C-...
>> > 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
>>
>>
>>