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How do I look at my old offline messages?

How can I view my previous offline messages?

  • I have received offline messages and would like to go back and look at the time stamp and reread the messages again. I know that I've received quite a few but I don't remember from whom or what they may say. I'm not sure how to find them or if I'm able to.

  • Answer:

    Try Message Archives or Recent Messages (under actions)

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you will be able to read it again ONLY if your Archive is activated. check on Preferences > Archive > View Archive *if it's not activated, no luck for you to view it again.

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If the offline messages were from one of your messenger list contacts AND you have the message archive set to save all of your messages, they will be saved in the message archive. But since you do not remember who they were from you will have quite a bit of searching to do. You can sort by date. CAN I READ OFFLINE MESSAGES AGAIN You can see the offline messages again only if both of the following conditions are true: The offline messages that you received were from a Yahoo! Messenger contact AND you have Message Archive set to save all your messages in Yahoo Messenger Preferences, then you can read them there. Just right click the contacts name on your messenger list and choose Message Archive. The message archive from that contact will open up and you can highlight by date at the top as to the one you want to read. Or if you do not remember the Yahoo ID of the person then just click Contacts at the top of Y!M and then Message Archive and see if you can locate those offline messages. You can sort messages by date by clicking first the Messages heading on the left and then clicking one of the dates that show on the upper part of the message archive window. Also if you did not change any of the settings for archives, and have not yet signed out, by default Yahoo Messenger saves messages in the archive until you sign out, then it deletes them, so you can still check to see if they are located in the message archives. Unfortunately if the offline messages were not from a contact and you accidentally closed them or yahoo messenger crashed before you could read them then there is nothing that can be done to read them again. Also if you did not change the setting in Message Archive to “Yes, save all of my messages,” then even if they were from a contact and Yahoo Messenger closed before you could read them, the offline messages are gone for good.

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