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Name: Whiteravan
Date: August 11, 2008 at 20:54:06 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: Pentium 4, 512mg
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i got a new computer and i copied and transferred all my yahoo archive to the new computer but all the messages in the archive are now corrupt and i cannot read them. Is there anything i can do to unscramble them?



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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 12, 2008 at 11:03:29 Pacific
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What do you mean by corrupt? How are you trying to open them?

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Name: Whiteravan
Date: August 12, 2008 at 15:06:45 Pacific
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What i mean by corrupt is that the messages are now scrambled, unreadable, they look like they are in code, i dont know how it happened or what happened.


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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 12, 2008 at 18:04:14 Pacific
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How are you trying to open them? Through Yahoo IM and viewing the archive? Or some other way? Because, unless you place the files in the archive location, you will not be able to view them in plain text.

Default location is:

C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\Your Yahoo User ID\Archive\Messages\Contact User ID

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What a shame
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What a shame" - Shinedown


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Response Number 4
Name: Whiteravan
Date: August 12, 2008 at 21:40:27 Pacific
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I have saved them to the correct file i.e

C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\Your Yahoo User ID\Archive\Messages\Contact User ID


I am reading them through my yahoo archive in preferences and i cannot read them as they are unreadable.


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Response Number 5
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 15, 2008 at 16:51:42 Pacific
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You're using the same Yahoo ID as on the other computer?

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Response Number 6
Name: Whiteravan
Date: October 7, 2008 at 18:31:08 Pacific
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Yes i am using the same id, nothing has changed other than the fact that i cant read the messages now.


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Response Number 7
Name: zalilmordeh
Date: October 31, 2008 at 10:46:18 Pacific
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hi

i got a little problem. i need to edit a chat conversation and i have been looking for a software to be able to do so. i have found decoders. but when i do the change, then when i save it again as dat file and copy back under same archive, the yahoo can not show it readable. is there anyway to fix this problem?


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