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How-to: Save your Chat Logs in Live Mesh

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 DocumentsMy Received FilesyournicknameYOURIDHistory”; if you’re using Messenger Plus! logging like me, it’s “My DocumentsMy 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.