# Where are the chat messages stored?
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/where-are-the-chat-messages-stored/57709
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [February 9, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/where-are-the-chat-messages-stored/57709 "2023-02-09T17:11:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Ludotomatic](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ludotomatic)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/where-are-the-chat-messages-stored/57709/1 "2023-02-09T17:11:09Z")
Hey everyone!
So, total beginner here. I added the Chat element to my app and sent a few messages from different accounts, however I can not find the messages in the tables. Where are they stored?
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[https://go.glideapps.com/support/99283539-a08e-4969-9843-8a92891284e5](https://go.glideapps.com/support/99283539-a08e-4969-9843-8a92891284e5)
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Ludotomatic](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ludotomatic)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/where-are-the-chat-messages-stored/57709/3 "2023-02-09T17:50:01Z")
Thanks GlideBot, but there is no Comments sheet in my data. Should I create it? This seems weird because several messages already exist.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/where-are-the-chat-messages-stored/57709/4 "2023-02-09T19:38:28Z")
You will only see it if your project is connected to a google sheet.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/where-are-the-chat-messages-stored/57709/5 "2023-02-10T00:36:32Z")
Adding to what Jeff said, please also note the Sheets version of comments is purely a log. If you change things there, it won’t be synced back into your app because Glide handles those comments internally.
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### Author:  [@Ludotomatic](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ludotomatic)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/where-are-the-chat-messages-stored/57709/6 "2023-02-10T16:06:35Z")
Oh ok, so this means I can’t display the latest message of each conversation in the chat list, right?
Thanks a lot for your help!
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/where-are-the-chat-messages-stored/57709/7 "2023-02-10T16:36:45Z")
You can create another sheet tab in your google sheet, and then use a formula to bring in all of the data from the App: Comments sheet tab into that new sheet tab. Then it will be accessible in glide, but all chat messages will then count against your row count, so I probably would advise against it, if you are going to have a lot of chat.
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### Author:  [@Ludotomatic](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ludotomatic)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2023, 8:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/where-are-the-chat-messages-stored/57709/8 "2023-02-11T08:59:50Z")
Good to know. Thanks a lot!