| Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | aklimo | 1/9/12 12:11 PM | I am using Google chat in the browser or through iChat. I toggled "Never save chat history." in the settings but it seems that Google Chat retains the last 10-20 messages in the chat window (not the whole conversation), even when I log out, sign out |
| Re: Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | KatherineG | 1/10/12 11:10 AM | Hey +aklimo, You should be able to resolve this by first making sure that you've chosen to chat "off the record". This can be done from the Chat window itself or from Chat settings. Once that's taken care of and you're chatting with someone, you'll |
| Re: Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | Susan Fitzsimmons | 1/16/12 5:32 AM | Have a look at this thread, it's been going on for some months now. Carrying cross operating systems and platforms too. Seems Google is storing stuff in their Cloud Service.... https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-to |
| Re: Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | Susan Fitzsimmons | 1/17/12 1:33 PM | Hi Katherine Thanks for this, it does help if I am using the chat within my gmail window BUT if I use a client (GoogleTalk) or my phone then the history is still retained. There seems to be some server side persistence going on! Any idea when this b |
| Re: Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | KeithR | 1/17/12 7:03 PM | Hi Susan,Do you ever see remnants of old chats in GTalk that are left over from phone chats or vice versa? Or do you just have GTalk remnants come up in the next GTalk session and phone remnants come up in the next phone session? |
| Re: Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | Susan Fitzsimmons | 1/18/12 7:56 AM | HI Keith I only tried GTalk this week for the first to see if it would fix my issue! Prior to that I had used the chat within my GMail and clients on my iPhone or Android tablet. I have used a mobile device at night and then logged in on a browser t |
| Re: Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | KeithR | 1/19/12 7:25 PM | Unfortunately no ideas, I just wanted to clarify your claim that the carry over is server based, not client based. Your explanation has made that crystal clear, thanks. |
| Re: Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | Susan Fitzsimmons | 1/20/12 6:12 AM | Thanks anyway Keith, I'm hoping that it's an issue that gets resolved soon otherwise I'll have to look at using another means for IMs and I loved the ease of using Chat within my email... Sad times :( |
| Re: Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | mbaltozer | 6/12/12 12:55 PM | "Never save history" is exclusive to your own account, only. History will still be recorded in the friend's account unless you take the individual conversation "Off the record", in which case it is no longer recorded until EITHER ONE of you disables |
| Re: Google Chat retains conversation despite "Never save chat history." | mbaltozer | 6/12/12 12:59 PM | Oh, and the notification... I don't believe that ever shows up in 3rd party clients. Nor the ability to enable/disable the feature. You must be using the official gtalk client or the one integrated into gmail. |