Where are the away messages stored?

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January 31, 2005 at 4:27 am #16722

dreamrose1989
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I just wondering, where are my away messages stored in the AIM files? I have ResHack if that makes any difference of where I can go. Thanks much

January 31, 2005 at 4:40 am #113401

David
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Start > Run > regedit
They are in the registry. HKCU/Software/America Online/AOL Instant Messenger (TM)/CurrentVersion/Users/ScreenName/IAmGoneList

February 1, 2005 at 3:08 am #113400

dreamrose1989
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all I get where I go there is I get to the current version and then there isn’t anything else I can select. When I click on the current version number it just says “(Default)” with the type name as “REG_SZ” I don’t know what I did, but they’re not showing up

February 1, 2005 at 3:14 am #113402

Tigerblade
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are you sure you’re in HKEY_CURRENT_USER and not HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ? both hives have the same structure to that point, but only HKCU has the away messages stored

August 19, 2005 at 2:53 am #113404

ellie
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is there a way to get the messages out of the registry and transfer them to another computer?

August 19, 2005 at 4:52 am #113403

Tigerblade
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sure… right-click on the “IAmGoneList” entry in the left-hand panel, and choose ‘Export’ – it will allow you to create a .reg file, which you can then transfer to another computer. once it’s on the other computer, just double click that file and the changes should be imported.

June 11, 2007 at 9:10 am #113405

alphafactor
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Hey guys.

I was wondering if you could help me out.

I had a desktop computer with a hard-drive on it from which I installed and used AIM. When I used AIM on that computer, I would regularly create Away messages (of varying levels of taste)– some 200 away messages in fact.

Anyway, because the desktop’s power-supply started acting up, I took out the hard-disk and put it in a 3.5inch enclosure.

That hard disk is now my external hard-disk (entitled “DriveG”) which I access from my laptop. So, if I wanted to recover the away messages that were stored on my old hard-disk (entitled “DriveG”), how would I do it?

I haven’t been able to find a direct way to access the registry on a hard-disk that is being used as an external hard disk.

Any tips would be MASSIVELY appreciated.

Thanks!
AlphaFactor
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