Migrating contact list is harder than it seems!

I’ve got bored with my IM – Kopete. I’ve decided to once more transfer all my ontacts into jabber and use it also on my mobile.

For my Nokia E51 (with Symbian onboard) I’ve chosen Slick. It’s client for googletalk, icq and others but what I wanted most was a Jabber client. It is also very eye-friendly!

When talking about PC… I think I’m going to use psi – in fact I got it installed already to manage jabber’s services, but I think I’ll switch to it for some time.

But there were lot’s of problems. First of all gadu-gadu transport refused to import my contact list properly. So I’ve changed the transport. It also didn’t want to help me. After long searching I’ve came across to http://www.nogui.yoyo.pl/tuty/GG2Jab/index.html which could help me out… if I had my contact list in txt format.

Unfortunately Kopete offered me only export to KDE contact list or something like that (big minus for developers – the most annoying example of being closed!). I’ve decided to install native gg client and export from there.

Another failure – the client has recognised my contacts from server (ITS server!) as groups :/ Totally pissed, I’ve tried one more thing. Searching for some old version of gadu-gadu (the website allows only to download the newest one! I’ve become so unused to the proprietary software I forgot it is possible!). After some googling I’ve found some old installator.

This one worked! Finally! I could export it to .txt format and import it using chomik’s script. Yupi!

~ by papaja1992 on 15 February 2009.