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Export buddy list as text file?
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:49 pm
by David Munch
I have pretty darn many contacts mixed up as meta-contacts.. And now that it has become time to upgrade to Adium 0.8, I thought I'd start from the ground and delete my ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/ folder, since it has followed me for almost a year now.
So I need a way to see which contact-names are supposed to stick together. Since I dont have the knowledge to do so, could any one make an apple-script or an app that could make such a text-file? Or would it be too big a task?
I think it would be something many people would use!
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:18 am
by zaudragon
Try the AIM Official Client, I believe a search will reveal what menu item it is in…
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:56 pm
by David Munch
zaudragon wrote:Try the AIM Official Client, I believe a search will reveal what menu item it is in…
Since I use AIM, ICQ, Jabber and MSN, this isnt a viable option for me unfortunately..
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:44 pm
by Adam Iser
Show offline contacts, open the get info window, and use the cursor keys to move up/down the list across all your contacts. The metacontacts will display as META in the info window and open the drawer showing who they contain.
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:35 pm
by David Munch
Adam Iser wrote:Show offline contacts, open the get info window, and use the cursor keys to move up/down the list across all your contacts. The metacontacts will display as META in the info window and open the drawer showing who they contain.
But I would still have to write them down manually, which is what I dont want to do! 100+ meta-contacts would take an hour..
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:44 pm
by Adam Iser
David Munch wrote:Adam Iser wrote:Show offline contacts, open the get info window, and use the cursor keys to move up/down the list across all your contacts. The metacontacts will display as META in the info window and open the drawer showing who they contain.
But I would still have to write them down manually, which is what I dont want to do! 100+ meta-contacts would take an hour..
It's still going to take forever to reconstruct them regardless
Contact List.plist is the file that contains meta contact information.. if you open it in a text editor you should be able to make them out in there. Could always trash everything except for that file.
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:16 pm
by Newtylicious
I threw everything away once except contact list.plist before. I had no problems with it. So just drop that back in and you'll be fine.
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:53 pm
by David Munch
Adam Iser wrote:David Munch wrote:Adam Iser wrote:Show offline contacts, open the get info window, and use the cursor keys to move up/down the list across all your contacts. The metacontacts will display as META in the info window and open the drawer showing who they contain.
But I would still have to write them down manually, which is what I dont want to do! 100+ meta-contacts would take an hour..
It's still going to take forever to reconstruct them regardless
Contact List.plist is the file that contains meta contact information.. if you open it in a text editor you should be able to make them out in there. Could always trash everything except for that file.
It doesnt display the names of the users, but I guess I could add that quickly myself. Thx, that should do just fine!
Newtylicious wrote:I threw everything away once except contact list.plist before. I had no problems with it. So just drop that back in and you'll be fine.
Thx for the tip! Looking at the contact list.plist, I can see there should'nt be a large change of this one getting corrupted, so I'll keep it!