cocoaforge

I really apologize for the caps and all, but I cannot stress enough how important this is. Here is the problem:

I get my grades back today, and one of them is a full grade lower then expected. (B as opposed to an A). So I email my teacher, inquiring about my grade and showing mathematically how it should be higher. She says that I got a 71 on my midterm (25% of my grade), when I really got a 91. She must've recorded it wrong in her gradebook, and now I am on break so I do not have my test to prove it, and there is a good chance I threw it away. So now it is my word vs hers, and if I got an A in this class (like I deserved), I get on the deans list and am qualified for 10,000+ in scholarship money this year.
Now thankfully to spotlight (I love my mac now even more than I thought possible), I searched for "91 religion." (religion & science class). Sure enough, I get an adium conversation between me and my girlfriend from the day we got the tests back, and she asks me how I did, and I say how I studied so much etc etc and got a 91 and how happy I was. My teacher said she will give me the credit if I show this conversation to her when I get back to school, which will qualify me for 10,000 which would be rather welcome.
The problem is, that the conversation has some sexual inuendos and comments between me and my girlfriend following mention of the test. I know that its not worth losing 10k over, but is there any way I can edit this adium conversation or make it shorter? It comes up in safari, but I cannot edit it or anything. I am really stuck between a rock and a hard place. Could anyone please help me? thanks? If i can't edit the conversation to just take out the sexual stuff then I will still probably show her, because its not worth losing 10k over, but I'd rather it not be there.

Please help!
Thanks

you could take a screen shot of the convo, then blur out the sexy stuff? save.. send... good?

Could you Copy/paste the part of the conversation that you need into a Word or txt file?

Tipo 61 wrote:Could you Copy/paste the part of the conversation that you need into a Word or txt file?

I would do this. Because if you blur the sexy stuff then they'll get suspicious and say you were hiding something. Sorry about your predicament. At my school if you argue your grades you get a zero and suspension

1. Reveal log file in Finder.
2. Open in TextEdit.
3. Remove offending parts, making sure to match tags appropriately.
4. Load in Safari to verify it still works.
5. There's no step 5.

But then couldn't you just edit it to sat whatever you want?

Theow593 wrote:But then couldn't you just edit it to sat whatever you want?

I question not the results or intention, I simply provide the method

This is why AIM conversations, etc aren't allowed as evidence in court.

Just scroll to where you said you got a 91 and she said thats great (which i'm sure she did), then take a screen shot, and then dupilcate the log (Ctrl+Click > Duplicate) and edit it, and then send her both the screenshot, and the log file. Make sure the time stamps match up as well.

Try to find the test. You should never throw stuff like that away while you're in college.

This thread does not need all caps, I am removing them,

Reikon wrote:This is why AIM conversations, etc aren't allowed as evidence in court.

Just scroll to where you said you got a 91 and she said thats great (which i'm sure she did), then take a screen shot, and then dupilcate the log (Ctrl+Click > Duplicate) and edit it, and then send her both the screenshot, and the log file. Make sure the time stamps match up as well.

Try to find the test. You should never throw stuff like that away while you're in college.

Man, NEVER throw anything away your not willng to loose or you might need in the feature at any time, not just College

MacOSX wrote:

Reikon wrote:This is why AIM conversations, etc aren't allowed as evidence in court.

Just scroll to where you said you got a 91 and she said thats great (which i'm sure she did), then take a screen shot, and then dupilcate the log (Ctrl+Click > Duplicate) and edit it, and then send her both the screenshot, and the log file. Make sure the time stamps match up as well.

Try to find the test. You should never throw stuff like that away while you're in college.

Man, NEVER throw anything away your not willng to loose or you might need in the feature at any time, not just College

Who knows who you can bribe?!

MacOSX wrote:At my school if you argue your grades you get a zero and suspension

That's rough. At my school, if you think you deserved a different score, you can talk it over with the professor/TA and they'll decide whether you have a good point or not. Whatever their decision is at that point is final. In this case, however, it's simply an instance of a mis-recorded score. Derajfast earned a 91 and received a 91, but wasn't given credit for it in the end. This sort of contention should be allowed at any school.

Go to unsanity.com, get the Chat Transcript Manager, put it in your Applications folder and start it up. It will gather ALL your Adium conversations in one place, you choose the conversation, print it and then cut off anything AFTER the mention of the 91 grade. That's all she should need, the rest of the conversation isn't her business. But it will be PRINTED out and UNEDITED other than the part you cut off.

-Meara

meara2 wrote:Go to unsanity.com, get the Chat Transcript Manager, put it in your Applications folder and start it up. It will gather ALL your Adium conversations in one place, you choose the conversation, print it and then cut off anything AFTER the mention of the 91 grade. That's all she should need, the rest of the conversation isn't her business. But it will be PRINTED out and UNEDITED other than the part you cut off.

-Meara

Why does he need to get a shareware app to do any of this?

The_Tick wrote:Why does he need to get a shareware app to do any of this?

Current log viewer doesn't support printing.

bgannin wrote:

The_Tick wrote:Why does he need to get a shareware app to do any of this?

Current log viewer doesn't support printing.

So open it in safari?

The_Tick wrote:

bgannin wrote:

The_Tick wrote:Why does he need to get a shareware app to do any of this?

Current log viewer doesn't support printing.

So open it in safari?

Aim for the lowest common denominator [i.e., user doesn't know how to open the file outside of Adium, thus the comment]

bgannin wrote:

The_Tick wrote:

bgannin wrote: Current log viewer doesn't support printing.

So open it in safari?

Aim for the lowest common denominator [i.e., user doesn't know how to open the file outside of Adium, thus the comment]

But we shouldn't be sending them to some shareware app.

Actually, both are perfectly valid options. You could equally say sending them to Safari is implicitly condoning closed source [paid] applications as Apple holds everything above WebKit proprietary and you have to pay to upgrade to the latest OS to have the latest of Safari (barring security updates.) Thus the alternative could instead be worded as 'use Firefox/Mozilla/Camino' as they are all fully open source and fully free. While I'm not saying pointing to shareware as the first resort is best, it is a fully valid option as are any of the above, and let's just put them on a level playing field [disregarding cost and leaving preference to the chooser]

bgannin wrote:

The_Tick wrote:Why does he need to get a shareware app to do any of this?

Current log viewer doesn't support printing.

But the logs are html, so they can be opened with any number of programs that do support printing. All that needs to be done is edit out the other stuff.