Lotus SameTime Chat History

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2014-07
  • User.1

    How do I get to yesterday's SameTime chat?

    A guy sent me a URL yesterday via Lotus SameTime. I saved the chat.

    Today, I opened Lotus SameTime. I clicked on File → Open Chat History and this is all I see:

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    So I click on each heading, and nothing happens. Nothing at all. I tried putting the guy's name in the "search" field near the top right. No result.

    How do I get to this chat from yesterday?

    • Answers
  • Simon O'Doherty

    As you used the "Save Chat As...".

    Open a chat window to the person again and do the "Save Chat As" again. It should give you a path where it saves the chat. Your earlier one should be there.

    As for the UI above, I think that only works if you have Chat history enabled. Also you need to check your preferences to see if you have chat histories to auto-delete.


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    google talk - Can I import my Pidgin chat History to Sametime?
  • JB Hurteaux

    I was using Pidgin as my IM software for Sametime and Google Talk. I'm now switching back to using Sametime 7.5.1 (and Google Talk) separately.

    Is there any way to import my chat history from Pigdin to Sametime?


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  • peroty

    I believe Pidgin uses either HTML or plain text for it's logs. How does Sametime keep logs? If it uses plain text or HTML then it should be a simple matter of copying the pidgin logs to where Sametime keeps it's logs.

  • kdford

    Sametime also creates a file called PersonFolders.xml (in the root of your chat history location) that indexes all of the chat history files, which Sametime stores in directories based on the userId of the person you wer

  • tmow

    I've the opposite issue, I'm trying to import the chats from sametime to pidgin.

    It's feasible but I'm lazy and/or too busy to do it...

    Sametime saves the chat history, as pointed out by kdford, in HTML format, under a folder that is equal to the username + the date (YYYY/MM/DD) + usernamelog.html

    Pidgin saves the chat history, (normally) in HTML under:

    ~/.purple/logs/meanwhile/YOURACCOUNTALIASNAME/USER/DATE.html

    Where:

    • DATE is like

    2012-10-30.183755+0100CET.html

    • USER is the username of the person with who you had a conversation

    So you can convert/export/import the chat history writing a script or a program in your preferred programming/scripting language.

    Also the file personfolders.xml is easy to create as it contains only a list of users and path where the chat are stored.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><folders>
<folder communityHost="" communityId="" displayName="Joe Foo" folderPath="[email protected]" id="[email protected]" isExternal="false"/> 
...
</folders>

    You could try and maybe post your results/issues and in the case we can help you more.