Subject: RE: ICQ and Yahoo Messenger exporting...
From: Leif Sawyer (lsawyer@gci.com)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 08:05:30 AKDT
Joshua "of the frozen north" Kugler writes:
> Well, I've (finally) made the transition to a complete Linux
> system on my home machine. [Well, almost, I'm still using
> Win4Lin for a few things.]
Welcome to the club! Don't feel too bad, though. I use WineX and
VMWare to complement my Linux desktop, although for very few things.
> My last hold outs of regularly used applications are ICQ and
> Yahoo Messenger, because of the all the conversation archives
> I have in them (AIM saves conversations in plain HTML files).
> ICQ isn't such a big deal, since I can go to the histories
> for each person and do a Save As... for the entire history.
> YM is a bigger problem: every conversation (new chat window
> opened) is a separate conversation, and I would have to do a
> Save As... for each one. Which would ridiculous.
>
> Does anyone know of any exporter/conversion utilities for
> these IM clients? Or where the format of the message archives
> might be documented? I've done some googling, but I can't find
> anything.
Well, first off, get rid of all of those, and use GAIM. Its gotten
a lot better in the past couple of months, so much so that its my
only client anymore. And it supports everything.
One thing that I would do, is turn off html support in the logfiles.
it makes them very difficult to read later. Plus, once you remove
the HTML, you can insert your old log-data at the top of the file
for each of your contacts, and it'll be like it was always there.
As far as YM logs, you might just try 'strings'. It'll grab
all the text from the history file. Yeah, kind of a PITA, but
i don't know of any other way.
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