Hi, Thank you for the email back to me. Yes I upgraded to IM version 9.0.0.2125.(had it given me a warning about the archives, I would have made sure I backed up) The folder is truly empty... I was looking at the archives just the day before. I did get a pop up window telling me to go to the 'vault', pick the file and then click on restore. I can only find one vault... the virus vault with AVG. I did contact their tech department. I got a generic email about no known issues. I just have an encouraging conversation on IM and that is what I lost.
My settings are set to archive all conversations..... Take care, Jeri :) --- On Mon, 5/4/09, LNVTM1 <[email protected]> wrote: From: LNVTM1 <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [Y!M] upgraded to IM9 and my archived messages are gone...!!! To: [email protected] Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 10:33 PM When you say "IM9", do you mean YM9... Yahoo Messenger version 9x? I just want to be sure. Have you actually navigated to your Archive folder to see if the .dat files are still there... or not? Here is the file path for your Archive... C:\Program Files\Yahoo! \Messenger\ Profiles\ (your yahoo ID), then you will see your Archive folder and inside that folder is a folder for Messages and another for Conferences. If you open the Messages folder, you will then see separate folder for every yahoo ID which you've chatted with. Switch the folder view to the "Details" view on the View Menu. Click on the top of the column for "Date Modified" and that will sort your IM's into chronological order. Click again and it will bring the most recent IM folders to the top. Are you really missing them or maybe your install of YM9 was corrupted and just will not open the IM folders or maybe you didn't set your preferences to archive new IM sessions? I'm guessing, like most of us, that you do not back up your computer on a daily basis. Check out Mozy https://mozy. com/?ref= SY4ZSI as a safe and secure and reasonably easy way to back up your most important files. It's FREE for the first 2GB of data which is a lot for family photos, documents, email, your YM archives, etc.... but not for folks that have lots of music, movies, games, etc. Mozy automatically backs up your files on a daily basis or even as you save them if you set up Mozy to do it that way. I have it set to back up twice a day. For those folks, they can buy the unlimited backup Mozy for only $4.95 a month. And in the interest of full disclosure, yes, Mozy has a referral program where if one of your friends or referrals signs up for the FREE service, you get more storage for free. I have the paid version on one of my computers but still use the FREE version on one of my other computers and I'm up to 7GB of FREE online backup with that one now. ;-) I've tried Carbonite, another online backup service, but found it wasn't as easy to use as Mozy and the last time I checked, they didn't have a FREE version. Sorry.. didn't mean to get off topic but everyone should have one or more backup systems in place for their computer's data. While most programs can be reinstalled in the event of disaster, many of the files in the folders for your Documents, Pictures, Music, etc. may not be easily replaced. Lenny Vasbinder http://lennyvasbind er.blogspot. com FREE and automatic online remote backup of your documents, photos and files... https://mozy. com/?ref= SY4ZSI Check out how simple and secure it can be to use the Mozy remote backup system. Mozy will back up your most important files and folders every day/night while you aren't using your computer. -----Original Message----- From: Yahoo_Messenger@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:Yahoo_Messenger@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Jeri Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:13 PM To: Yahoo_Messenger@ yahoogroups. com Subject: [Y!M] upgraded to IM9 and my archived messages are gone...!!! I upgraded to IM9 and without warning to back them up, they are now gone.. I did get a pop-up window to go the the 'vault' to restore them. I cannot find the 'vault'. I asked AVG about this and they had 'no known issues' (whatever that means).... I do regularly backup my archives, although I have now lost very valuable information from the last few days. Please help, I am afraid to turn off my computer now in fear of permanently losing the file if it does still exist. Thanks, Jeri :(
