Old history extractors

Belkasoft still supports their older products for analyzing various messengers. You can find them in the list below. Please note, however, that they are no more developed, only bugs are fixed when it is requested by a customer. See modern products on the main page.

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The following Instant Messengers are supported by older products:

  • ICQ (all versions prior to ICQ 6) — Belkasoft ICQ History Extractor
  • Miranda (starting ver.0.1.0.0) — Belkasoft ICQ History Extractor
  • Yahoo! Messenger — Belkasoft Yahoo! Messenger History Extractor
  • &RQ — Belkasoft &RQ History Extractor
  • Microsoft MSN Messenger (starting ver.7.0) — Belkasoft MSN History Extractor

Belkasoft History Extractors Features

Belkasoft History Extractors allow you to extract your Mirabilis ICQ, Miranda IM, Yahoo! Messenger, &RQ and Microsoft MSN Messenger history in such formats as plain text, HTML and XML. All major versions of ICQ are supported:

  • ICQ 99a
  • ICQ 99b
  • ICQ 2000a
  • ICQ 2000b
  • ICQ 2001a
  • ICQ 2001b
  • ICQ 2002a
  • ICQ 2003a
  • ICQ 2003b
  • ICQ 4 (ICQ Lite / ICQ Pro)
  • ICQ 5 (ICQ Lite / ICQ Pro)

Miranda version 0.1.0.0 and later is supported.

Microsoft MSN Messenger version 7.0 and later is supported (just make sure you have switched history saving on, otherwise, there will be nothing to extract).

It is possible to select a time period of interest, generate history for chosen contacts only, filter sent or received messages.

Differences between the regular and the Pro versions

Every extractor has two versions: the regular version and the Pro one. The Pro version costs a little more and has a few advantages over the regular version:

  • Ability to extract history of any size. The Regular version can handle only a maximum or 20000 messages and ignores messages in excess of that number. The Pro version works with large history without any restrictions
  • Ability to split histories by contacts. The Pro version can generate a separate file for each contact's history. It proves very useful when you have a mass of message history
  • Ability to run in batch mode. This feature is extremely useful when it comes to scheduling history extraction
  • Ability to extract deleted ICQ messages for 99b-2003a versions (relates to Belkasoft ICQ History Extractor Pro and Belkasoft Universal IM History Extractor Pro)
  • Convert your older ICQ version to ICQ5 (relates to Belkasoft ICQ History Extractor Pro and Belkasoft Universal IM History Extractor Pro)
  • Enhanced support for multibyte codepages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Converting old ICQ history

You have decided to upgrade your very old ICQ to the latest version of ICQ and you do not want to lose your message history. But Mirabilis history converter that you have downloaded from ICQ site lacks reliability. It does not convert all history, just pieces, cuts messages that contain multiple lines and so on.

To solve the problem use Belkasoft ICQ Analyzer which allows you to convert your history to ICQ 5 format. Then, the latest version of ICQ will automatically convert ICQ 5 history to the new history format.