Instant Messaging question RE: Trillian and Adium

[Flexon Phil]

Both of these programs keep previous conversations on file, I cannot figure a way to delete the files. Anyone know?

[gonzo]

Wow - Adium keeps a file? I didn't know that. Definitely would like to disable that. Sorry I can't help.

[valleygirl]

paging HikeItFirst.....

[TheSab]

In Trillian pull down the Trillian menu, go to Trillian Preferences, then click on Activity History...you can turn off logging there. It also gives you the path to the log location, in case you want to delete previous logs.

In Adium go to Preferences>Advanced>Message History. Settings are there.

[Flexon Phil]

In Adium go to Preferences>Advanced>Message History. Settings are there.

That will just change what pops up when someone IM's me, past chat history, I had it set at 5 lines but now 1. There is nothing htere for past logs.

[TheSab]

That will just change what pops up when someone IM's me, past chat history, I had it set at 5 lines but now 1. There is nothing htere for past logs.

From Adium's web site:

How do I disable message history? ¶

You can disable logging from the General pane of Adium's Preferences.

You can disable message history from the "Message History" section of the Advanced pane of Adium's Preferences.
Where does Adium store my message histories? ¶

Adium stores logs in:

Your home folder
Library
Application Support
Adium 2.0
Users
Default
Logs

Adium stores message history in:

Your home folder
Library
Application Support
Adium 2.0
Users
Default
ByObject

[evands]

The latter part of that support site entry is actually out of date; message history is not stored separately as of Adium 1.0. I've updated the page to be fully accurate.

[matanuskaski]

trillian log files are stored under... *:\Program Files\Trillian Pro\users\default\logs or if you are just running basic obviously the folder won't be trillian pro

[Flexon Phil]

Found both, thanks everyone.