Bug 163771

Summary: Import of message histories from earlier versions and other IM clients
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: René Krell <renda.krell>
Component: generalAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: angel_blue_co2004, b.brachaczek
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description René Krell 2008-06-11 10:56:38 UTC 
Version:           4.0.80 (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

There is a feature I miss not only in Kopete, but especially in it - import of message histories from Kopete from KDE3. Possibly for other IM clients later, too, which could be hard to to.
I use Kopete at work and have a lot of important information in the message from the previous Kopete. It would be a really nice feature to semi-automatically merge from these histories by finding the appropriate contacts and merge it not loosing the timeline within this contact.
Comment 1 Cyrill Helg 2008-06-11 11:43:41 UTC 
You don't have to import the old ones. Just keep the kopete folder in .kde/share/apps and the history is still available.
Comment 2 René Krell 2008-06-25 10:18:45 UTC 
Ok, you're right in case of not already having new logs in Kopete from KDE4.
My problem was already a bit different. I already produced logs in the KDE4 Kopete, which were written to a different folder than in KDE3. As a result, I had to merge all double logs from the concerned month to get old and new logs together in a text editor. This merging could be done by Kopete itself, anyway.
Comment 3 Angel Blue01 2009-03-06 03:21:11 UTC 
I would like an easy way to import from Pidgin, but I understand that this might not be possible.
Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2009-03-06 16:37:18 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> I would like an easy way to import from Pidgin,

Wait for KDE 4.3.
Comment 5 Bartosz Brachaczek 2009-12-06 22:15:25 UTC 
Isn't it already fixed?
Comment 6 René Krell 2009-12-16 15:48:42 UTC 
This hasn't been implemented even in KDE 4.4 Beta1. Kopete migrates/overtakes only it own message history provided that it is configured to be read from the same directory as before. I can't find any feature or plugin which imports several message history formats (including the Kopete-native one) from a different directory or file.

May be it won't be done never, it's only a wish. Lets look forward to KDE 4.5 :-)
Comment 7 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:27:49 UTC 
Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.