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Recording chats in Adium

Pt. 6 of 10 | 2:12 |

Beginner's Guide to Adium

Monday April 20, 2009

Sometimes it's handy to have a record of what you chat about. If your chat is work-related you can prove that your boss didn't tell you to work overtime. If it's personal you can go back in and find out what time the family picnic is on Saturday. If you log chats in Adium you can use the Transcripts function to go back and see what was said, and by whom.

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Show Notes

Download Adium for the Mac and follow along with this tutorial series

- Open Adium.

- To save chats, Logging must be turned on. This is done by clicking Adium, then Preferences, and the on the General tab making sure the box for logging chats is checked.

- Highlight a contact.

- Right-click and select View Chat Transcripts.

- In the dialog that opens you can go through the Transcripts you have.

- You can Hide Time Stamps.

- You can Hide Emoticons.

- If you wish you can Print your chat Transcripts.

- You can also search your Transcripts to find things you're looking for.

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