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quote:Originally posted by Oreo
Are you positive this link that you went to did not d/l something into that account? Also, with 6.0 the5.x versions are going bye bye as far as upkeep and support. I know what you mean about the offlines, I had to back a bunch of them up when I switched to 6.0. But this way Yahoo! protects against any problems that might occur. Also, what might be the problem is the number of messages you have stored. Do you have your messages archieved? I'm trying to remember back to that version what I had to do when this happened to me....I believe the culprit was a nasty offline...I think I fixed it by accessing messenger via my cellphone and deleting the offending message and then things worked well again.
What you may have is a bad message stored in your box causing it to crash. (Hence the reason Yahoo! stopped storing them). If you have access to a mobile phone that can access Yahoo! messenger for free or if you have a friend that you trust who would do it for you...that might be your best bet. Good Luck and post again if something changes or none of these suggestions work.
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Hi Oreo-
Good to hear from you.
Regarding the link, I'm not sure what it could have downloaded or where. I assume the unarchived Offline Messages under Yahoo! IM 5.5 are stored on Yahoo's servers, is this not correct? So I have no way to scan them. I could be wrong, but I'm thinking this is not the case unless someone knows differently.
You mention that the number of messages may be the problem and come to think of it, when the problem occurred one other time, it was with the other account I mentioned. After a reinstall? I believe, I was able to access the messages and manually save those which I wanted to keep which made the problem disappear. At the time of the crash, I had several hundred messages stored offline. It's been some time ago--the other account now has only about a dozen messages offline, and there is no problem whatsoever.
I did mention in my first post there were only about 40 messages stored offline in the current problem account, but this estimate may be wildly off--it may be many more, now that I think about it, and you could be right, it may be at capacity.
How would I delete a few of the messages then and access them once more? I don't use a cell phone presently but will see if I can use a friend's who has internet access.
I would like to try other options first though if anyone can think of one.
As to Yahoo's discontinuing support for IM 5.x versions soon, you mean you'll not be able to connect to the Yahoo Messenger servers with client versions under 6.0? If so, do you know when this will occur?
Thanks.
