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How can I export a long Microsoft Teams chat?

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I would like to export the entire history (thousands of messages) of a conversation from Microsoft Teams. There is no "save" or "export" functionality evident in the Windows client. I found some forum posts that suggested using the browser interface and printing to PDF, but when I did that I got only the most recent few messages, not everything. "Select all" (control-A) did not select messages in either.

I tried selecting a batch of messages manually, copying, and then pasting them into some other application, but got no results in either MS Word or Emacs -- it acts like the copy didn't happen. I can copy and paste individual messages successfully, but that's not a viable approach.

I found some posts that suggest the existence of an admin tool for exporting, but I do not have admin access. I'm just a regular user. I also found some references to exporting my data, which I assume might be to comply with data-portability laws, but I want the whole conversation, not just my piece of it.

How can I archive a long conversation efficiently?

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deleted user wrote over 3 years ago

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/msteams_tfb-msteams_chatg-msteams_chatgr/export-chat-from-a-teams-meeting/2ead28bb-b07b-448b-b66c-b521d2e50f58

I never used that. But, i was reading some replies. They said that you have to contact microsoft support to export them. But, the asker said that's not helpful. I hope you may find your answer there (i didn’t read whole thread thats why i can't say which was helpful for him)

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, no help there for regular users, and I don't think I can get whoever oversees our corporate installation to do an admin task for me. :-(

Alexei‭ wrote over 3 years ago

It seems that this one of those "common sense" features that everyone is asking, but Microsoft does not have time to implement - https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16982542-backup-export-printing-archive-options .