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Can I import my Pidgin chat History to Sametime?

Can I import my Pidgin chat History to Sametime?

I was using Pidgin as my IM software for Sametime and Google Talk. I'm now switching back to using Sametime 7.5.1 (and Google Talk) separately.

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Guest [Entry]

"I've the opposite issue, I'm trying to import the chats from sametime to pidgin.

It's feasible but I'm lazy and/or too busy to do it...

Sametime saves the chat history, as pointed out by kdford, in HTML format, under a folder that is equal to the username + the date (YYYY/MM/DD) + usernamelog.html

Pidgin saves the chat history, (normally) in HTML under:

~/.purple/logs/meanwhile/YOURACCOUNTALIASNAME/USER/DATE.html

Where:

DATE is like

2012-10-30.183755+0100CET.html

USER is the username of the person with who you had a conversation

So you can convert/export/import the chat history writing a script or a program in your preferred programming/scripting language.

Also the file personfolders.xml is easy to create as it contains only a list of users and path where the chat are stored.

<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?><folders>
<folder communityHost="""" communityId="""" displayName=""Joe Foo"" folderPath=""joefoo@foo.com"" id=""joefoo@foo.com"" isExternal=""false""/>
...
</folders>

You could try and maybe post your results/issues and in the case we can help you more."