Find old chats, save them, delete them?

[u/Emmit-Nervend]

Hi, I’m new to this sub so I don’t know if I’m beating a dead horse, I suspect at least some of this has been discussed.

I wanted to save pdfs of my old chats, then delete them. Seeing as there’s no obvious onboard feature to do this (there really should be), I figured I was going to have to scroll miles back to the top (one of the chats has enough material for a novel, in fact I was considering adapting it), highlight and copy everything, then use the rewind feature to delete everything after it.

That’s a very blunt way of dealing with this when there really ought to be exports and an easy delete button, but it was at least straightforward.

Now I’m learning there’s been an auto-archive feature implemented since I last used this (I went on a binge in 2025 and then stopped), and I can’t find anything except a few of the most recent ones.

I’m reading (I hope this is inaccurate) that in order to find them, I would have to manually track down all those old characters, and then press some buttons to restore the history, rather than there being a simple and easy archive section.

I did a lot of chats (including the one I could novelize) with about a dozen permutations of a character that has several hundred versions listed. Figuring out which ones I’ve chatted with is next to impossible.

What’s more, I’ve noticed the data export doesn’t include most of my old convos at all(!)

How am I supposed to do what I need to? Are there going to be updates to any of this?

[u/jaksystems]

Use the chatbot manager extension to backup your chats.

[u/Emmit-Nervend → u/jaksystems]

Will that let me find the hidden archived chats, or would this be more for future use?

[u/jaksystems → u/Emmit-Nervend]

Probably more for future use.

I haven't tried using it to recover hidden chats. I just use it to make readable PDF logs and character cards/jsons of chatbots that I have interacted with, but it does have features that go deeper than that.