How do I delete recent contacts from the contact bar in Yahoo messenger?

How to delete all the address from the contact search bar on yahoo messenger.?

• how to delete all the address from the contact search bar on yahoo messenger.this is situated above the messenger list .the space and bar where u type yahoo id or phone number.i want to delete all the address.

• Answer:

  the only way I know of is clearing the entire list (rather than individual ID's listed) is to pop into your Yahoo! Cache directory located at.... C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache you can delete the entire contents of the Cache folder (which will remove it) or you can delete just the conversation history list. it's going to depend on if you have logged in using one default ID or mutilple ID's, if one then there will be one file, if multiple, then there will be multiple files... one for each ID you have used the file you need to delete will look something like... Ex4PoBU5oaXdyQjk0tQ_FQ-- .conversationhistory.xml the... "Ex4PoBU5oaXdyQjk0tQ_FQ" part will be completely different though, so just look for any / all files ending with... conversationhistory.xml right click and delete each file, or if you're worried about deleting just rename the extension instead e.g {name}.conversationhistory.xml would become {name}.conversationhistory.OLD when you sign out of yahoo messenger a new conversationhistory.xml file will be created :) btw... the file name.... Ex4PoBU5oaXdyQjk0tQ_FQ-- .conversationhistory.xml is actually all one line but answers is cutting it off due to length... e.g Ex4PoBU5oaXdyQjk0tQ_FQ--.conve... if the above is unclear just check out http://www.wackyb.co.nz/Yahoo!_Messenger_version_8_Issues%2C_Tips_%26_Tricks/ head to the bottom of the page and you will supporting graphics for it :)