Backup MSN Messenger

[Beemer]

Does anyone know how to manually backup MSN Messenger contact list?

Which files?

Any special process?

TIA

Cheers!

[ShawnD1]

The contact list is stored on MS's space, not yours. I have formatted my hard drive a LOT of times without ever backing anything up and every time, my contact list is exactly how I left it when I run MSN Messenger again for the first time after formatting.

[Beemer]

Thanks ShawnD1. I use ICQ myself. I haven't a clue about anything that is MSN. A friend of mine is having a a problem logging onto MSN Messenger so I told her to uninstall and reinstall. I thought MSN Messenger might be like ICQ. You loose your list.

Cheers!

[muno]

MS having the list on their site is actually a good idea, I log into messenger from many computers so it's nice to have contacts available from whereever you logon.
-M

[Urban_Squrill]

MSN is better then ICQ in that respect. Form my experence ICQ is( or at least was) easier to get hacked.

[myownworstenemy]

MSN Messenger 6.0 has an option to export the contact list to a file on your pc. This will save as an XML-style file with all the contact's email addresses.

Steps:

Click contacts, and then save contact list.