I would like ChatGPT’s memory to be transferable between accounts and devices, so my experience can be more continuous and personalized.
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Hi @Val88 and welcome to the community. I believe the memory (part of personalization) is already transferrable across devices for the same account. Transferring across accounts is not possible and probably falls within a general umbrella of export/import data for OpenAI.
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Tell it to generate you a document that contains the key information, impressions, and conversational style choices he has formed from your sustained engagement. Then feed that document to the new account/device.
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Export of data is currently not working… at least for me… no emails arrived. Trying for 3 months now
you can tell it to do in text form. then copy/paste
I reach the limit length of conversations. Everytime… so it can’t. I have to export it one by one… puffff
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100% this is vital. I think I’ve clocked a few thousand hours of interactions with ChatGPT at this point… probably sad to think about. So needless to say I’ve had to migrate conversations to chats constantly. @Val88 unfortunately it’s beyond the ability of the platform at this time to do what you’re asking. The best we can do is what others suggested, however I do a little more.
If I reach the maximum of a chat session, I will copy and paste the entire chat and add it to a massive .txt file. I have a single conversation that has been chunked into about 50 different files. If you’re ever trying to copy over previous chats, please do it by uploading it in a .txt file, or multiples depending on size so you save that crucial chat space. The reason I have 50 files is that no AI module at this time can accurately process a “conversation” that long. I’ve found that 75,000-150,000 words per file are about the max for it to be able to understand with minimal errors. Now to be a little more specific to what I think you’re asking @Val88 I ask the AI to add to “internal memory” as I call it to always default new chats to match my personality traits, and for new chats to maintain a tone, cadence, and just way of speech patterns that I like. Is it perfect? No. It usually takes me about an hour of fine-tuning to get long chat sessions back to about 95% of where it was when I left off.
I’ve used this for complex legal and medical matters, and have found this solution to be sufficient with the above-mentioned fine-tuning. Maybe it’s in my head, but in the last few weeks, there has been a noticeable improvement between imports of chat sessions, at least in terms of maintaining the “personality” of a previous chat. A lot of this may not be important at all if you’re simply using the module for simple data processing and generating. But if you want what I want, and what I think @Val88 and others are asking for, try the steps I outlined above and let me know how it goes. Oh, and as far as the export chat feature goes? Completely worthless (to me) Also asking at the end of a chat for it to summarize the key points to help with a new chat migration can be useful, and asking it to maintain the tone, and “speech” of that current session and I use that at the start of a new chat before importing all of the previous text.
Sorry for the long post, but this is something I’ve been wishing for improvements on since I started using the platform. And this is my first day on the forum and this was the first post I saw. So glad to see others having similar feelings.
Sorry to Bump myself. But since my last post, ChatGPT can now transfer sessions to other sessions. Or at least read sessions to other sessions, for example, if you tell it to pull up another chat and give that chat name, it will then have it in memory. It’s fantastic and it’s must have been implemented at least for me in the last few weeks. For example, I have three different chats regarding the same thing overall but each dealing with specialized parts. They can now all cross reference each other and add what might be missing without me having to do much at all. I’d give it an 8.5 out of 10 right now
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How do you “Tell it to pull up another chat and give that chat name”
It can be a little finicky and It only works with 4o model. So the best way I found is in the other chat where you want to transfer data or answers. I have to tell it. "Pull up the chat session and just tell it to verify that it has in memory and is ready to answer any questions from that chat. When I don’t do that, it starts to just summarize that chat and it wastes my limited 80 message limit with Pro.
Here’s an example of what I did, how I didn’t like it and how I corrected it:
Me: pull up gym visit timeline dictation chat
ChatGPT: I have your gym visit timeline details stored. Here’s a structured breakdown based on our past discussions:
It then started to break down the entire chat into a nice summary. That’s really great if that’s what you want. But I needed something else, so I said:
Me: No. What I mean when I say pull it up, is just tell me you have it in memory and are ready to answer any questions from that chat.
ChatGPT: Understood! From now on, when you say “pull it up,” I’ll confirm that I have it in memory and that I’m ready to answer any questions from that chat, without summarizing unless asked.
So, to confirm: I have the Gym Visit Timeline Dictation Chat in memory and am ready to answer any questions from it. 
Then it worked flawlessly for my purposes at least which is to able to answer and specific part of that session. Again this is a very new feature so you may run into issues that I didn’t. Give it a try this way and let me know how it went. Remember it only works on 4o.