Do you have inane or private chats that you’d rather not leave sitting around your Gmail account?
First off, change your Gmail settings to not save your chat sessions. After logging in to Gmail, go to your “Settings” menu, and under the “Chat” menu, choose the option to “Don’t save chat history in my Gmail account”. Click here for more detailed instructions on this step.
Second, what about the person you are chatting with saving the chat session? Go “Off the Record”. There is an “Options” link at the bottom of your chat window in Gmail. Click that and choose to take your chat off the record. The chat session will not be allowed to be saved by your chat partner either. If your chat partner decides to change the setting, it will show up in your chat that they did so. Click here for more detailed information on going off the record.
Note one – If your chat partner is using a third-party chat client, it may be keeping it’s own record of the chat and there is nothing you can do about that.
Note two – Your chat partner can always cut and paste the contents of your chat window into another file.
LASTLY, don’t freak out if you’ve turned off saving chats and gone off the record and then when you open a chat to one of your friends, EVERYTHING you said last chat session is still there! This is because you havn’t logged out of Gmail since you chatted. Log out and log back in again and when you open the chat window for your friend again, it will be brand spanking new AND empty.
0 Responses to “Erase Google Chat Mode and Chat Buffer and Go Off the Record”