Walkthrough: retrieving deleted in Yahoo Messenger archive

Yahoo Messenger is a popular instant messaging client.

Users can save the chat history if you "save the option all messages", which enabled although sometimes occur when archive chat is deleted. Fortunately, there is software available that can recover your archived messages from Yahoo. Level of difficulty: Moderately easy

Instructions

Things you need: Recuva

1. 1

   Download Recuva (see resources).

Recuva is a free software manufacturer of CCleaner data recovery program. You have four options you can add the installation process. Options to add shortcuts on the desktop and start menu, automatic updates for Recuva and the ability to install a Yahoo toolbar for your search engine. Click the check boxes for any options you want to add.

2

Open the menu "Options" on the interface Recuva.

Under options, click Choose your language from the "General" tab and "Deep analysis" under the "Action" tab click "OK" to return to the main interface.

3

Select the drive you want to analyze the main interface.

The selected drive and click "Scan". When the scan is complete, you see the results of analysis of multiple deleted files.

4

Find Yahoo Messenger files.

These files are in the DAT format. The file will relate to your user name and the date. for example "20100809 - username." Find "DAT", after the date of the file. This is the only lead to the individual DAT files and PE files to suchenUT are only Yahoo Messenger read. When records are deleted, coordinates all folders and files deleted. Each contact has contact username folder of your folder name. This is where the messages with a user exchanged are stored. You must place any contact folder to rebuild and the individual files in the respective folder Intérieurle Yahoo archive folder.

5

Right-click the file or files you want to retrieve.

When you click the button, Recuva be wondering where to save the recovered files. A popup window with the title "Browse for folder" will appear, here you can choose to save your desktop, Flash or other removable drive, or another folder on your computer. Select the location where you want to save files Recuva, and click "OK". Once you have chosen and retrieve all messages from Yahoo let Recuva.

6

Navigate to your Yahoo profile folder.

You can find this folder under "Programs". Follow this path in "Program Files": "" Yahoo! / Messenger / profiles. "" Click the folder archive; on your profile folder, then Contacts folders are located. Because all contacts folder from the archive have been deleted, you must create a new folder for each contact.



For example "program files/Yahoo! / Messenger/profiles/your user name/archives/contact username."

7

Copy and paste the files to the new location of the contacts stored.

Open Yahoo Messenger to read files. Repeat all steps until you converted your story all archives with a con have individual bars and talks.