Windows Live Messenger smileys backup

[t0rek]

I need a program for making a backup of my smileys and display pictures, and install them again in another PC with their respective shortcuts. In other words an smiley / display picture importer and exporter for Windows Live Messenger. Do you know anything about guys?

[Miretank]

Plus! backs up most smileys, though it doesn't save the animated ones correctly.

[t0rek]

Didn't know Messenger Plus! do that. However I need something that saves all the smiley correctly, including the animated ones. Messenger Plus nowadays is a huge memory sucker.

[Doomulation]

I've often wondered myself. Perhaps it's possible to copy the folder in %appdata% for messenger to a new computer. Give it a try and see if it works.

[smcd]

I think what doom said would work - i have decent luck copying files/folders like that for other programs... either in \local settings\application data or \application data\ in the document and settings\ user dir

[t0rek]

Do you guys know the exact location?

[Doomulation]

Did you try %appdata%\Microsoft\MSN Messenger?

[t0rek]

yes, there are a lot of carpets named with numbers, all of them useless...

[xneoangel]

yes, there are a lot of carpets named with numbers, all of them useless...

Carpets? hmmm you should stop using that weird spanglish. :P

Carpet = Alfombra o Tapete
Folder = Carpeta ;)

Anyway give it a good check when i have to backup my mails from outlook express i have to get in the identities folder and get into folders with lots of weird numbers you just have to know the right files.

[WhiteX]

each "carpet" number is tied to an username, find yours and back it up.

[t0rek]

Carpets? hmmm you should stop using that weird spanglish. :P

Carpet = Alfombra o Tapete
Folder = Carpeta ;)

Anyway give it a good check when i have to backup my mails from outlook express i have to get in the identities folder and get into folders with lots of weird numbers you just have to know the right files.

I'm aware of that, I was in a hurry, it was sorta a Freudian Slip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip).

BTW, the folders that actionally have data, have weird names, and I can't preview them, so I don't know which one is mine...

[Doomulation]

Just copy 'em all. While browsing through the folders, I found that it contains a folder for "custom emoticons." Though I can't preview, I'll bet they have the smilies you desire. Again, best bet is to copy that entire folder (Msn Messenger) to a new computer.