Export Gmail Chat?

[Bablus 66]

I would soon be migrating out of a gmail account to another one..

While I am able to export all mails/contacts..

How do I export or maintain an offline archive of all chats?

Please advice..

[Bablus 66]

The solutions which I tried and did not work are

• Labeling the chats and downloading them via IMAP: it looks like it worked (by accident?) in the early times of IMAP in GMail. Doesn't work anymore.
• Forwarding the chats to yourself: you have to do this one by one. It's not a very good method, since I have 1000s of chats
• Creating a rule that forward the chats to yourself: it doesn't work with already existent chats, and I'm not sure it'd work with the new ones

I believe a Parse script a solution.. but I am not any good at that.. would need a step by step guide..

[dkaile 1,051]

No easy way out for this; either copy all to text file or try using this 3rd part software - http://www.download32.com/im-history-i53916.html

[Bablus 66]

None of them really help for gmail..

[Bablus 66]

Guess these two links help

http://collincode.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/google-chat-history-downloader/

http://martinml.com/en/how-to-download-and-backup-your-gtalk-gmail-chat-logs/

But require knowledge of sql and parse script..

[csmart 472]

gmail provides facility to forward chat session to any email. log into your gmail account on web browser, open saved chat, click drop down button next to "Reply" and there you will find forward option.

i just checked it and it is working..

[Bablus 66]

Got 100s of such chats..

option not feasible..

[csmart 472]

@bablus theres no other way..

check this forum