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Logorrhea - Browse and search iChat log files
Authored by: Patchsmyle on Nov 03, '03 01:51:05PM

Or you can just perform a find in the finder menu.

If you choose "Specific Locations, you can identify your iChat folder. Then perform a search for the person's name in the file name, and what you were looking for in the content of the IM.

You can even add a date created (the date the IM conversation was finished).



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Logorrhea - Browse and search iChat log files
Authored by: aranor on Nov 04, '03 01:06:32AM

I often just use grep in the terminal.



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Logorrhea - Browse and search iChat log files
Authored by: jonbauman on Nov 04, '03 01:59:59PM
I often just use grep in the terminal.

The problem that I have with that is that grep considers the iChat files to be binary. It won't show you the matching context, it just says Binary file Fakey McFake.chat matches.

I really can't understand why they didn't make the iChat transcript format text-based. I realize that there's styled text to deal with, but RTF-style could work, and that's all text-based

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