Theoretically, you could use another word processor, but I tested this trick with Word. The first approach is to capture all of your thread’s text into a Word document, which you can then save, convert to PDF, or archive. These approaches aren’t particularly elegant, but they work. That said, there are ways – even if you’re not a channel superuser – to retrieve the entire history of a given thread.
#Slack download entire conversation history archive
Slack lets you export and save an archive of messages, but only if you’re the channel owner or admin. I definitely confirmed this because a long thread of conversation with another client team member who left the project about six weeks ago has completely disappeared.īut, if you act quickly after deleting an account, you can find the archive in order to save it. Also, old conversations with accounts that haven’t been on Slack for about a month are no longer available. Even if you press Show more, message history is limited. Only the latest conversations remain available. Unfortunately, these conversations don’t stay on this list forever. If you click on the little clock icon at the top of your screen, you can see a history of recent conversations.
There is a way to access the message archive.
But yet, as disturbing as that seemed to me, that is not the case. I always assumed that I could go back and look at things for reference whenever needed. Without thinking too much about it, I figured that Slack’s message history would work the same way as an email archive.