Store messenger conversations in Live Mesh
- Here's a feature request for the Live Messenger team.
Currently I don't save my Live Messenger conversations but often I'll think to myself "Ahhh...I once talked about that with someone in a Messenger conversation, pity I don't have a record of it".
Wouldn't it be cool if all our Messenger conversations were automatically stored in the Mesh? That way every conversation I have would be recorded and they would be searchable as well.
Better still, it wouldn't just do this with typed conversations. My audio and/or video conversations would be recorded too.
Thoughts?
-Jamie
Update: More here: http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!550F681DAD532637!5132.entry
http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/ | http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson- 已编辑Jamie ThomsonMVP2008年7月17日 8:58extra
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- Howdy,
In the tools options of Messenger, click on the Messages tab. In Message history you can set the location of where to save your conversations which you can meshify a folder to remain synced..
I have mine setup like this at the moment so all my recieved files etc are also part of it!
I like the idea of being able to search inside the conversations files etc...
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- Wow, excellent idea.
As Brennon says, this should just work though, as Messenger stores its history in a folder on disk (Tools > Options > Messages). On Vista, the default is C:\Users\<UserName>\Documents\My Received Files\<ID>\History.
Great idea!
Richard
Richard Chung [ Live Mesh ] - I'm doing this too ! For now it's via Foldershare, because I Mesh dind't have P2P yet and I didn't change it yet.
I'm also syncing 'My Downloads' and 'My received Files' so I never have to worry where I received something or where I downloaded it. If I download an installer I now only have to download it once and cam run it on every Mesh machine !
- DevDuck said:
Wow, excellent idea.
As Brennon says, this should just work though, as Messenger stores its history in a folder on disk (Tools > Options > Messages). On Vista, the default is C:\Users\<UserName>\Documents\My Received Files\<ID>\History.
Great idea!
Richard
Richard Chung [ Live Mesh ]
Yeah, I'll do that. Mind you, I think the real value is in the searchability. if you can bring that to the Mesh....fantastic.
http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/ | http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson - One thing I suggested on my blog was:
"Furthermore, once our conversations are stored on the Mesh then we can access them all programatically using the Mesh APIs that will soon be delivered and take that content, our content, and share it to wherever we want to share it to. Perhaps we could choose that our conversations are searchable for other people; perhaps http://search.live.com/messenger becomes a window onto a wealth of thoughts and ideas that until now simply don't exist because they're not recorded anywhere"
Searchable conversations. That would be SO cool.
http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/ | http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson - More on this. I've had my conversations folder linked via Mesh for a few weeks now and have a few more reasons why this isn't a satisfactory solution:
-If you have a conversation with the same person on different machines then there is going to be a file conflict. When you resolve that conflict then something will be lost. If Messenger actually took the responsibility of storing stuff on the Mesh (rather than just using Mesh folders) then it can be intelligent about how it merges those conversations and nothing would be lost. [Put more technically in MeshFX terms, every message in a conversation could be a DataEntry, rather than every conversation being a DataEntry]
-Conversations done on the web using the Messenger web interface (which I know is coming) could be saved to Mesh.
-Files that are transferred don't get stored. Perhps they could be if Messenger was on the Mesh.
-Anything done in the Activity window is lost
-Audio conversations recorded as MP3s
-Video conversations recorded as WMVs
DevDuck, I would really appreciate it if you could bring this to the attention of the Messenger folks.
-Jamie
http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/ | http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson- 已编辑Jamie ThomsonMVP2008年8月10日 15:51extra
- 已编辑Jamie ThomsonMVP2008年8月10日 15:56extra
- Agreed. It would go a long way if WL properties all worked together.
RE: #1. I think Messenger saves conversation history into an xml file named <username><randomnumber>.xml. I thought these files are unique per machine. (Did you manage to get two Messenger clients writing to the same file?) This then avoids any file conflicts.
I used to work on Messenger Server, so I'll see what I can do. Definitely submit Feedback to Messenger as well!
Thanks,
Richard
Richard Chung [ Live Mesh ] - DevDuck said:
Agreed. It would go a long way if WL properties all worked together.
RE: #1. I think Messenger saves conversation history into an xml file named <username><randomnumber>.xml. I thought these files are unique per machine. (Did you manage to get two Messenger clients writing to the same file?) This then avoids any file conflicts.
I used to work on Messenger Server, so I'll see what I can do. Definitely submit Feedback to Messenger as well!
Thanks,
Richard
Richard Chung [ Live Mesh ]
Richard,
I can confirm that they're not unique per machine. I had 2 conversations with someone on 2 different machines this morning and they both went to the same file. hence, conflicts CAN occur.
I'll submit the feedback.
Thanks for the reply. Push push push for this...it would be SO cool :)
cheers
Jamie
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