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ICQ 2003b Contact Message History Import / Export - How To
ICQ Import Problem:
This is a way to import the message histories from ICQ 2003b into the latest version of Miranda NG:
* Convert the ICQ 2003b message history files to ICQ 5 format. Use ICQ Converter 1.0.47.32 by Safrad (David Safranek) (http://sx.rosada.cz/projects/icq)
* Use the Import TXT plug-in to import the message history into Miranda NG.
You will need to obtain the now discontinued ImportTXT plug-in and also an older version of Miranda NG that will load the plug-in.
In Miranda NG, create an ICQ account. Then search for contacts to add to the contact list (just type any random strings for the search). The ICQ plug-in supplied with the old Miranda NG version will not connect to ICQ, so you need to add some dummy contacts to the contact list.
Select a contact and use the ImportTXT plugin to import a contacts message history using the converted ICQ 5 format files. You will need to import ALL the XML files for the contact's message history, one at a time.
Do the above for all contacts whose history need to be imported.
Miranda NG will now have the message histories stored in its profile data file.
* Download the latest version of Miranda NG, and add the HistoryPP plug-In to it.
Move the Miranda NG profile file that contains the imported histories from the old Miranda NG version into the new Miranda NG version.
Use the HistoryPP plug-in to export the contact's histories into the mContact format. Do this for each contact.
* SetUp another version of Miranda NG that is configured with the accounts and contacts on the contact list that you will usually use in Miranda NG.
Now use the HistoryPP plugin on this Miranda NG to import the histories that were exported into the mContact format into the desired contact(s).
dartraiden:
--- Quote ---In Miranda NG, create an ICQ account. Then search for contacts to add to the contact list (just type any random strings for the search). The ICQ plug-in supplied with the old Miranda NG version will not connect to ICQ, so you need to add some dummy contacts to the contact list.
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You can export contacts from current Miranda NG via DBEditor plugin into ini format. And import them same way into older Miranda. Then use ImportTXT to import the history.
Also you don't need History++. ImportTXT from Miranda NG 0.95.8 can export history into JSON format. Import plugin from current Miranda can inport these JSONs (right-click on contact → Import).
ICQ Import Problem:
--- Quote from: dartraiden on 28 02 2019, 15:35:52 ---Also you don't need History++. ImportTXT from Miranda NG 0.95.8 can export history into JSON format. Import plugin from current Miranda can inport these JSONs (right-click on contact → Import).
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? . Miranda NG 0.95.8 does not come with ImportTXT. And the built in plug-in download does not offer it.
dartraiden:
Yes, built in plug-in updater shows only plugins for current stable. Do not try to install anything to old Miranda via PluginUpdater!
You should manually download and unpack Miranda 0.95.8, DBEditor, and ImportTXT
https://www.miranda-ng.org/distr/deprecated/0.95.8/
https://www.miranda-ng.org/distr/deprecated/0.95.8/x32/Plugins/
ICQ Import Problem:
--- Quote from: dartraiden on 28 02 2019, 15:35:52 ---Also you don't need History++. ImportTXT from Miranda NG 0.95.8 can export history into JSON format. Import plugin from current Miranda can inport these JSONs (right-click on contact → Import).
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ImportTXT is a import plug-in as far as I have seen. How do you use it to export?.
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