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dep
23rd-February-2008, 07:09 PM
is it possible to archive sent or received messages?
Methods?

DavidY
23rd-February-2008, 07:41 PM
Assuming you mean Private Messages (?) there's an option at the bottom of the PM areas of the forum to "Download all Private Messages as:" which allows you to export them to a file which you can save on your computer.

It gives you the choice of saving as CSV, Text or XML - I chose XML as it's probably the best format for data of this sort (CSV etc. are awkward to deal with when the data you're trying to save contains commas and carriage returns).

I also have MS Access on my home PC which means I can import the XML messages into there.

There are probably better XML solutions out there though, and probably more emerging all the time. I'd suggest keeping an XML export now even if you can't read it yet...

dep
23rd-February-2008, 08:24 PM
Private Messages ... there's an option at the bottom of the PM areas of the forum to "Download all Private Messages as:" Thanks David.
Saved as both XML and CSV until I decide what to do with them.