Open Adium files in your browser
The chats Adium logged on your Mac, and Pidgin's on Windows and Linux, read back as conversations. Drop the Logs folder right here. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your chat opens as its conversation, each message in a bubble in its sender's color, with the days, replies, reactions and calls, and the photos and voice notes the export holds.
- Every conversation • Each person in a color of their own
- Search • Every match counted, and a date jumps to its day
- Stats • Who wrote how much, by hour, weekday and month
- Export • Save as PDF, CSV or text
About Adium
Adium, the Mac's chat app for AIM, Jabber, Google Talk, ICQ and more, logged every chat under Adium 2.0 in the Library's Application Support: a folder an account, a folder a buddy, and a .chatlog a session, XML in its own Uniform Log Format, which newer versions wrap in a folder of the same name.
Pidgin, the same networks' app on Windows and Linux, keeps its logs in .purple/logs, a folder a network, an account and a buddy, and a file a session named by its date and time, HTML or plain text. Neither app's logs open anywhere but in the app, and both apps faded with the networks they spoke.
Filepeek reads a .chatlog, a Pidgin log or a whole folder of them into conversations, a buddy each with every session in order: messages under their senders with their line breaks, statuses and sign-offs between them, and a session past midnight on the right day. Search counts every match, Stats shows who wrote how much and when, and Export saves the chat as PDF, CSV or text.
Adium chat log
.chatlog • .xml • .html • .txt
Format
- MIME type
- application/xml
- Made by
- Adium on the Mac, and Pidgin
Inside the file
- Adium
- XML, a .chatlog a session
- Pidgin
- HTML or text, a file a session
- Folders
- An account, then a buddy
- Written by
- Adium and Pidgin
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens Adium's and Pidgin's logs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, however many sessions they hold. On their own, browsers show a .chatlog's XML as code.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open Adium
- WindowsPidgin reads its own logs
- MacAdium reads its own logs
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
Where are Adium's logs?
In Library, Application Support, Adium 2.0, Users, Default, Logs. Copy the Logs folder or a buddy's folder from the Mac or a Time Machine backup, and drop it here.
Where are Pidgin's logs?
In .purple, logs, under %APPDATA% on Windows and your home folder on Linux: a folder a network, then the account and the buddy.
Can I open a single log?
Yes. One .chatlog or Pidgin file opens on its own. Drop a buddy's folder to read every session as one conversation.
Can I save a chat as a PDF?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as PDF. Save as CSV gives a row for each message.