Ways to load chat history from previous sessions

**Urheil** · February 2nd, 2023, 23:02

Hi all!

My search-fu is losing its power!
I couldn't find any indications on how to load chats from other sessions.

I know chats are saved, but don't know how to load them.

Can you tell how it is done?

**Moon Wizard** · February 2nd, 2023, 23:14

You can not load chat output from previous sessions or from other sessions. However, chat output is saved to a file named chatlog.htm in each campaign folder for viewing in a browser.

Regards,
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**Urheil** · February 3rd, 2023, 03:48

May I ask why?
It seems natural for me íf u can save, u can load...

We'll have to do with what we got, then.

Thanks for your answer!

**LordEntrails** · February 3rd, 2023, 04:00

Probably because no one has ever asked for the ability to load past chat logs? At least I don't remember anyone ever asking.

But, you can always add it to the wish list so others can vote on the idea and the devs can track the feature enhancement requests.
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**Urheil** · February 3rd, 2023, 04:04

Originally Posted by LordEntrails

Probably because no one has ever asked for the ability to load past chat logs? At least I don't remember anyone ever asking.

But, you can always add it to the wish list so others can vote on the idea and the devs can track the feature enhancement requests.
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Honestly I've just found out the chats were saved, so My first instinct was searching the loading button.

I don't believed i'd submitted anything, so I'll try. Thanks!

**LordEntrails** · February 3rd, 2023, 04:19

Originally Posted by Urheil

Honestly I've just found out the chats were saved, so My first instinct was searching the loading button.

I don't believed i'd submitted anything, so I'll try. Thanks!

You should add a link here to the idea so others who find this thread can easily vote for it

**Jim Bennett** · February 10th, 2023, 01:33

seems to this still "newbie" that I came across that in an early session I attended and , as I recall, I merely copied each chat session before session ended and pasted it into a word doc.....then when I went to start new session...and found need to refer to it I had it...what do you all think?

**anstett** · February 10th, 2023, 01:38

My game is run exclusively in chat. At the end of each session I copy the relevant portion into Word, run a couple of macros and then post to our site for everyone to be able to read and use throughout the years.

https://www.dragonslayers-society.or...klyChatHistory

We used a different VTT for the first 18 years, FGU for the last year and a half.

**Urheil** · February 10th, 2023, 03:37

Interesting... Thanks for your thoughts!

**Lo Zeno** · February 14th, 2023, 14:00

I do the same copy-and-paste into an archive of text files organized by date, where text gets indexed as well for easy searchability. Sure it would be more convenient to have a "chat history" button in FGU where to search for specific words/dates/roll outputs, but I suspect that since copy-and-paste is pretty easy to do most people don't consider it a priority feature to add.

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