Merge AdiumX Logs

SeaWolf · Post by **SeaWolf** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:28 am

I've got two seperate installs of AdiumX, one on my home computer and one on my work computer. Both are setup with the same accounts and I've been using both for a while. What I want to do is merge their logs together so that I end up with one complete set of logs. The trouble is that in some cases I've talked to the same user on the same day both at home and at work, so I'm not too sure about how I can get all the logs together properly.
Any ideas?

Post by **cbarrett** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:46 pm

In the future, you could try making a Portable Adium (http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/PortableAdium).

As far as merging, I would probably just go in and do it by hand, dragging things into the right paces. the file hierarcy there is pretty straightforward.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:38 am

Thanks for the portable adium thing. Helps me put it over a network (i use adium between two comps at home). With regards to hand merging the logs, is it possible for someone to write a program that can do it automatically? It's quite alot of work to open log files, copy paste the entries and repeat for maybe hundreds of files... and u're bound to make mistakes too.

I'm sure it isn't too hard to have the program look for time stamps in the logs and copy-paste/interleave the entries together properly in chronological order, but i don't do programming beyond really simple applescripts and some html so i'm in no position to make an assumption on that.

Just some qustions tho, would the location thing work for the pref files in the pref folder? or only for the adium 2.0 folder under app support? And y can't adium just accept aliases?

SeaWolf · Post by **SeaWolf** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:41 am

Isn't it true that Come The Revolution (AdiumX 1.0) that the whole log system is going to be changing anyway? Would it be possible to provide the option when importing the old logs into the new system to import more than one set?

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:44 am

Ok the location thing doesn't quite work.. i get hte same problem as when i put an alias of the adium 2.0 folder into app support.. weird.. maybe i shud fix permissions like adium says.. but i did that just last nite?

how much different is hte new logging system compared to the old one?

SeaWolf · Post by **SeaWolf** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:46 am

This Trac article explains it better than I ever could, though I'm not sure how current it is now.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:05 am

Haha as far as i can see from that page, they haven't decided yet

SeaWolf · Post by **SeaWolf** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:07 am

Yeah, hence I'm hoping one of the devs will chip in and give us a bit of an update, assuming there's anything new on this front.