How do I get my old Yahoo Messenger Archive to my new computer?

My computer recently crashed and I had to buy a new one. When I installed Yahoo again my archive was gone. Best Buy transfered basically all of my files from my old computer to my new one. Is there anyway to find my old archive?
Answer:

If you have installed Yahoo Messenger again, good chances that it overwrote the files that were left on. All I can give you is the path to where are archives are saved but that will be where your new archives are if you have enabled them. You could also do a search for .dat files, that is the format archives are in but they are encrypted. Emotes are also saved in .dat files so do not assume that every .dat file you find is an archive. This help page will tell you the path to find Yahoo Profile but again, this will only lead to where you installed Yahoo Messenger again but you can check if you like though if you archived new ones that is where they will be saved and that will not help you. http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger8/messenger/mstacopyarchive.html They are saved in this format yahooid.dat. So if this was my Yahoo ID, I would do a search from my search on the Start Menu for true_colors.dat. But again if you are using the same Yahoo ID it will find the archives you have recently saved too. OK I know that this is all very confusing. If you need to you can email me via my Yahoo Answers Profile and I will try to sort it out.

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