How-to: Save your Chat Logs in Live Mesh
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May 4th, 2009
When I recently tried to save my chat logs somewhere in the Cloud, I failed using SkyDrive; I simply couldn’t mount it as virtual drive in Windows. (Yes, I know about Gladinet; it’s crashing often and slow.) Thus, I had a try with Live Mesh. After some initial problems with Mesh thinking that it should solve conflicts by deleting some logs (I got quite angry about that), I got it working. Here is how I did it.
- I started with signing in to Live Mesh and testing if my account is still active.
- I had also installed the Live Mesh Windows client (XP/Vista 32-bit, Vista 64-bit, Mac Tech Preview: visit with your Mac) earlier.
- I went to the folder where Chat Logs are stored. If you are using Messenger’s own chat logging, this should be “My Documents\My Received Files\yournicknameYOURID\History”; if you’re using Messenger Plus! logging like me, it’s “My Documents\My Chat Logs”.
- Create a backup of the folder! I might avoid heart attacks if Live Mesh behaves unexpectedly.
- Given that the Live Mesh client is running and signed in, right-click the folder and choose “Add folder to Live Mesh…”.
- Confirm the new Mesh folder and wait for the logs to get uploaded – that’s it!
- You should now see the Logs folder within your Live Mesh Desktop.
Not a amazing discovery
but after seeing all the bad times you had through Twitter jajajaja… this is just great 
Would this work to try and synchronise two lots of logs, eg Home and Work?
If you chat with Guy1 at home, and the log guy1@live.com.htm syncs to Mesh, it will replace the old log on your work-PC. If you chatted with Guy1 at work as well in the meantime, Live Mesh will show an “Unresolved Conflict”, letting you decide whether to overwrite the work-log, overwrite the home-log, or rename one of them to ” (2)”.