Hello,
I was previously using skype and extensively relying on groups history everyday, that is, being able to pull a keyword from a 3 month or 2 years old conversation and see it in context, and access whatever image or file was sent at the time in the group. With skype it kinda worked, although it was all sluggish and even barely usable if it was too old in the history (because.. microsoft and cloud), my understanding is that Jami stores all history locally, which is good (if we can easily back it up and import it).
I have some questions :
-on mobile devices, can we prevent automatic downloading of files/images until they are clicked on?
-is there a way to import the skype history into Jami, i have several groups and few years of history, which is mostly messages but also images and some file (zip, binary mostly). I know i can get some history from skype by requesting it and probably with a script to pull it locally (as far as i know microsoft only stores the last few month online, the rest is local).
I understand that there may not be any function to do so (at leat i did not found) i do not mind to write some kind of tool / python script if needed, i just need to be pointed in the correct direction.
Thanks
has wonderful Jami experiences—unlimited and free one-to-one and group conversations with screen and window sharing;
has successfully moved from Skype to Jami;
has used Jami with a telephone number on the PSTN (public switched telephone network) with the Jami SIP client feature, with all other communications with Jami using the JAMI protocol;
appreciates that there are even more reasons why Jami is the communication solution; however, if they are written, you might be inclined to incorrectly believe this is a robot.
Hoowl did some code in external software that used Jami software. Don’t understand how Hoowl did it, but thought the four hyperlinks under the Hoowl on the recommendations webpage might help you.
It might be best to accept that your data in Skype is not yours and can’t be used in Jami.
I don’t doubt your “wonderful” experience, however in my only initial test this afternoon, which consisted of creating an account on the PC, an account in the IOS APP and a group with these two accounts it occured that when i sent a zip file of few KB in the group, the file did not shown and all history in this group vanished. Further attempts at sending the file worked, but the history never came back. That is concerning for the least.
It might be best to accept that your data in Skype is not yours and can’t be used in Jami.
I don’t think such statement really helps the cause especially when it is not true, a simple python script allows to extract the datas and to store them in a sqlite db or similar, we can also request some history bundle (which i suspect only includes few month back).
The issue here and what i try to know is whether there is a clear and simple way to import existing histories in Jami. The links pointing to hoowl does not help, i don’t intend to reverse engineer their code in order to import an history in a messenger tool.
Just an addition for having a download of your Skype data.
I also had that great wish and after asking on another forum if anybody knew a possibility/program for that, I got the name of a good working program: Skyperious.
I downloaded version 5.6, did some tests that indeed downloaded the complete history of my most important contact since 2017-04-24. Apparently the older history isn’t available anymore, a pitty but for me this was already extremely important and quite a relief. I also have it running daily via the scheduler (I’m using Windows 10).
So perhaps you can import this in Jami, If so I would be happy to hear it
No thanks, great it helps.
B.t.w. the reason for missing data before 2017-04: content shared before 2017 April is no longer available, that is when Microsoft moved Skype to the current client-server solution.
You can have the download as .html and in .xlsx files, where the Excel file gives you a tab per contact, but no pictures. The html file is complete with pictures.
In case it’s wanted, I’ll try to include below the commands I wrote in a simple .bat file that’s started via the Scheduler (so I can’t forget to do it regularly).
The comments are Dutch, but despite that should be clear And yes, including a hardcoded password is a risk!
REM -------------------------------------------------
echo --- Stap 1 - Synchroniseren Skype chats.
REM -------------------------------------------------
REM
skyperious sync drive:\path\Skyperious\skypeid.main.db -u skypeid -p password
REM -------------------------------------------------
echo --- Stap 2a - Exporteren Skype chats als html file.
REM -------------------------------------------------
REM
RMDIR "drive:\path\Export from myname" /S/Q
skyperious export drive:\path\Skyperious\skypeid.main.db -p password -t html -o drive:\path
REM -------------------------------------------------
echo --- Stap 2b - Exporteren Skype chats als een Excel sheet met per author een apart werkblad.
REM -------------------------------------------------
REM
DEL /f /q "drive:\path\Export from myname.xlsx"
skyperious export drive:\path\Skyperious\skypeid.main.db -p password -t xlsx_single -o drive\:\path\Skyperious
And yes, including a hardcoded password is a risk!