MSN Messenger History Merger

The MSN Messenger History Merging application can merge the XML history files of the MSN Messenger and the Windows Live Messenger. This is useful when using multiple machines running the Messenger (e.g., office and home) with the history logging turned on.

In this scenario, each machine has its own copy of the history files; each copy corresponds to the same recipients but in different times. This utility will look for history files of the same recipient in two different folders and create a merged version of the history file for every recipient found.

MSN Messenger saves the conversations history as xml files. The files are located by default in "My DocumentsMy Received FilesHistory"; where corresponds to the MSN profile name used to log on to the Messenger network. MSN Messenger saves a single xml history file for each recipient, so when using multiple instances of MSN Messenger (e.g., one instance from your home box and the other from your office box) there will be different folders with history files corresponding to the same recipients. There is no easy way to view all the conversations done for single recipients from various instances.

This tool aims to close that gap: the purpose of this tool is to merge the history files from 2 such history folders into one folder. This is done by merging the messages from each recipient history file and copying the merged file to the merged folder, as defined by the user.

Requirements:

￭ Requires the .Net v2 framework (not included). ￭ MSN Messenger