What will happen to Trillian chat history?
I love Trillian for it's super effective chat history feature. For some reason, there's some old chats I have in Trillian Google Chat that doesn't show up in Google searches for some reason.
When I reinstall Trillian, it always "downloads" chat history from the servers. I'm assuming this is from Trillian servers, not Google. What will happen in the future when I have to reinstall Windows and reinstall Trillian? If Trillian can't log into Google Chats any longer, how can I still be able to get it to download the search history whether it's from Google or Trillian servers? Is the search history still saved in the XML files?
I am sad but ok if Trillian can never log in to Google Chats. But I would be devastated if there was no was to search my chat history through Trillian. I end up doing a fresh install of Windows about once a year.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Posted Jul 2, 2022, 4:26 PM UTC
I haven't looked for them in years, but the chats used to be saved as plain text files on your computer (and later there were also xml versions). You should be able to back them up to a flash drive and the cloud and wherever else you'd like to back them up.
I used to see all of my chat history logs as individual local files, even though I have cloud backup selected, but lately (not sure which version it started) it only seems to locally save the most recent chats. I have to download them again if I want to do a search.