View Yahoo Messenger Talk History Archive Directly
In every version of Yahoo Messenger, there is an option where you can save all your messages that you've sent and received from your contacts. The history are saved by default and can be disabled from the Preferences by at the same time pressing Ctrl+Shift+P and click on Archive. The messages are meant to be viewed only by the proprietor of the account because it requires logging in to the Yahoo account. However, due to the poor encryption of the talk log files that are saved locally on the hard drive, there are third party instruments that can decrypt the encrypted .dat files and expose the conversation without even running and logging in to Yahoo Messenger. There are many devices that you can find to decode the messages archive for Yahoo Messenger but most of them are outdated. After testing all the contraptions that we can find, we found that the most up to date free instrument to decode yahoo talk archive is Yahoo! Archive Manipulator. All you need to do is install the program and run it which will automatically detect the location of the history .dat file and display the messages in a tree view. A useful feature that is not usually found on other similar contraption is the filtering and a powerful text searching capability (case insensitive, any word, regular expression) for you to lightly find what you're looking for.
Yahoo! Archive Manipulator has been successfully tested on Yahoo! Messenger v10 in Windows seven 32-bit. However the program crashes periodically when closing the program.
As for the current Yahoo! Messenger v11, fortunately (or sadly) there won't be any third party contraptions to decrypt or decode the saved talk messages because the history are stored on server side. The good thing is you can access and view your Yahoo! Messenger conversation history at anywhere on a computer with an active Internet connection. Just go after the two plain steps below to view the history that are saved with Yahoo! Messenger 11:
1. Go to https://login.yahoo.com/config/login and login with your Yahoo ID and password.
Two. Once you're successfully logged in, open this link on the same web browser http://us.mg.mail.yahoo.com/msgr/ssav2/
You can now click on a contact at the left pane to view your conversation history. The search bar at the top is fairly useful to narrow down what you're looking for on the talk logs. Since the saved messages are stored online, you can permanently delete them by clicking the last icon on the right that says “Delete entire history” if you have any privacy concerns.
Alternatively, you can also access the talk history by logging in to the web based Yahoo! Mail and click on the Conversations at the left pane.
View Yahoo Messenger Talk History Archive Directly •
View Yahoo Messenger Talk History Archive Directly
In every version of Yahoo Messenger, there is an option where you can save all your messages that you've sent and received from your contacts. The history are saved by default and can be disabled from the Preferences by at the same time pressing Ctrl+Shift+P and click on Archive. The messages are meant to be viewed only by the proprietor of the account because it requires logging in to the Yahoo account. However, due to the poor encryption of the talk log files that are saved locally on the hard drive, there are third party instruments that can decrypt the encrypted .dat files and expose the conversation without even running and logging in to Yahoo Messenger. There are many contraptions that you can find to decode the messages archive for Yahoo Messenger but most of them are outdated. After testing all the implements that we can find, we found that the most up to date free contraption to decode yahoo talk archive is Yahoo! Archive Manipulator. All you need to do is install the program and run it which will automatically detect the location of the history .dat file and display the messages in a tree view. A useful feature that is not usually found on other similar contraption is the filtering and a powerful text searching capability (case insensitive, any word, regular expression) for you to lightly find what you're looking for.
Yahoo! Archive Manipulator has been successfully tested on Yahoo! Messenger v10 in Windows seven 32-bit. However the program crashes at times when closing the program.
As for the current Yahoo! Messenger v11, fortunately (or sadly) there won't be any third party implements to decrypt or decode the saved talk messages because the history are stored on server side. The good thing is you can access and view your Yahoo! Messenger conversation history at anywhere on a computer with an active Internet connection. Just go after the two plain steps below to view the history that are saved with Yahoo! Messenger 11:
1. Go to https://login.yahoo.com/config/login and login with your Yahoo ID and password.
Two. Once you're successfully logged in, open this link on the same web browser http://us.mg.mail.yahoo.com/msgr/ssav2/
You can now click on a contact at the left pane to view your conversation history. The search bar at the top is fairly useful to narrow down what you're looking for on the talk logs. Since the saved messages are stored online, you can permanently delete them by clicking the last icon on the right that says “Delete entire history” if you have any privacy concerns.
Alternatively, you can also access the talk history by logging in to the web based Yahoo! Mail and click on the Conversations at the left pane.