You can save in-meeting chats to your computer or the Zoom Cloud either manually or automatically using the Zoom desktop client.
If you save the chat locally to your computer, it will save any chats that you can see. That is, those sent directly to you and those sent to everyone in the meeting or webinar. However, if you save the chat to the cloud, it will only save chats that were sent to everyone and messages sent while you were cloud recording.
To save a chat manually in Zoom, first, open the chat you want to save. Then, click on the three dots in the top right corner of the chat and select “save chat.” You can then choose to save the chat as a PDF or an HTML file.
For the automatic saving of chats; hosts can automatically save all in-meeting chats so that they do not need to manually save the text of the chat after the meeting starts. Before automatically saving in-meeting chats, hosts must enable the Autosaving chats setting.
FAQs
To save in-meeting Zoom chat manually:
1. Join or start a meeting.
2. During the meeting, click Chat.
3. At the bottom of the chat window, click the ellipses, then click Save Chat.
This will save your chat to your local recording location. The default is your Documents folder / Zoom / Folder with the meeting name, date, and time.
No, you cannot save a Zoom chat after a meeting. You can either save automatically before or during the meeting by enabling automatic chats or make an export of the saved chats when done. To do so, open the chat and click on the “More” menu. Then select “Export Chat.
Saved chats are located in the chat history tab of the Zoom web client.
To view and download stored messages, sign in to the Zoom web portal. In the navigation menu, click Account Management then IM Management. Then, click the Chat History tab.
Zoom does not store the content of private chats. If you recording to the cloud as a host, a transcript of public chat messages can be saved on the cloud, but private messages between participants are not saved.
Yes, you can see the chat history tool under Reports.
Simply follow this sequence to get to the chat history: Account Management > Reports > User Activity Reports tab > Chat History).
To recover a deleted meeting or webinar:
1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2. In the navigation menu, click Meetings or Webinars.
3. Click Recently Deleted in the top-right area.
4. Click Recover for the meeting or webinar you would like to recover from the trash can.
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