Wanna Save Yahoo Message Archive

[Wizard]

Hey Guys

I wanna format my Drive, But Want my Precious Message Archieve to be backed up some how and wanna put it in place after I load my windows again.

So tell me how to do it

and be fast, coz formattin is gonna be done tomorrow

[niz9sand]

Hi der wizard, wel da solution to ur question is jus quite simple......... all da Y! ids message archive wil b saved under a comman folder located under da "Program files" folder........ da right path address is :

C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\

Here inside this folder u wil c many folders named wid Y! ids sign-in name depending on da no. of ids logged in usin Y! mess......

So u jus backup this entire "Profiles" folder n sav it at anoder safe place...... den aft all da re-installations hav been done...... install Y! mess n den restore da folder accordingly........

N der u r ....... u hav got ur Precious "Message Archive" folder BAK!!!

Wel wizard it wud b kind if u spell ur name aft all each self's identity is imp.......
I hope u understand wat am saying.

So wizard...... if u hav ny prob wid da bakup n restore procedures of Y! mess message archives...... ask me....... Main hoon na ;)

[aadipa]

Take backup of this folder
%ProgramFiles%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles

After reinstall, restore backup. That should do it. Atleast it is working for me since last 4 reinstalls

[Engineer Sunny]

For saving the archived messages, copy all the subfolders in the following sub-folder to some place and then paste them back into the new installation of yahoo messenger.
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles

This should solve your problem. Best of luck and let me know when it works.