I have no idea what other OPTIONS I have left. Hopefully, I can post this here.

I just reinstalled Yahoo Messenger 11 and I wanted to check my conversation history since nostalgia hit me pretty hard yesterday. It was my first account and I had it since about 2005 or 2006, and I remember that the option to save the conversations was always there.

Unfortunately, my archives only go back to 8/10/2011 (September 8th). Furthermore, prior to stopping using Yahoo Messenger a couple years back, I remember being able to see older messages, although no changes to the conversation history preferences were made, meaning the option to save archives was still there. The error I keep getting is There was a problem retrieving more messages for...

Could this be an issue with the current version of Yahoo Messenger? Could it be that I had the archives only locally saved?

Tried READING help articles, guides, other similar questions asked, but to no avail. And when I also check the conversations in Yahoo Mail, I can only go as far back as 2011. Does this mean that every message prior to 2011 is lost? That would be EXTREMELY depressing.

Please help me recover my written memoirs!


Thank you!Managed to contact someone from YahooCare:


So you would have had a version prior to 10. At version 10 we required all customers to put their archives on the servers - if they wanted access to them via Messenger. By version 11 we no longer prompted for this or had any ability to do so. This means, if you just installed Messenger again, you PROBABLY missed the window where you could convert your archives. Most likely they are still stored locally on the machine you had back then. A lot of folks refused to convert their archives between 2010 - 2013 so it's possible you opted out of this.


I'm pretty sad now. I don't remember anything like asking me to convert my archives so this is actually depressing. Oh well. ANYONE got any other ideas? Quote from: NoThrowaway on September 17, 2015, 04:16:23 PM

Managed to contact someone from YahooCare:


So you would have had a version prior to 10. At version 10 we required all customers to put their archives on the servers - if they wanted access to them via Messenger. By version 11 we no longer prompted for this or had any ability to do so. This means, if you just installed Messenger again, you probably missed the window where you could convert your archives. Most likely they are still stored locally on the machine you had back then. A lot of folks refused to convert their archives between 2010 - 2013 so it's possible you opted out of this.


I'm pretty sad now. I don't remember anything like asking me to convert my archives so this is actually depressing. Oh well. Anyone got any other ideas?