Help Needed: ICQ Related.

[Napolion]

Hey people.

I NEED help regarding ICQ. Ok here's the problem. Theres two people using the one PC at my house. Before the other person moved in there was just my ONE account on ICQ. Then he moved in and he tried to transfer his account onto my PC. We thought it would be straight-forward. We were wrong.

We had his password and account # so everything looked Ok, until once we added his number we realized that his account had lost ALL the information he once stored on it. No contacts, no history, no nothing. His account was on my PC it just has seemed to have gotten wiped in the process.

I don't know why. Please help.

 

[Guest]

Ummm

if his account was never on your PC or it was deleted and then redone, you have to redo everything. If he has had the same number....... then my advice would be to get online and wait for some of his old friends to message him if he doesn't have the emails...

ICQ does not back up contact lists or anything. Once you no longer have it......you no longer have it. I have all of mine written down on a piece of paper that I keep in my filing cabinet.....




Hope that helps

 

[Todd]

ditto

ICQ does not data base store each persons user list on thier servers so if you go from one puter to the other you start over even if you jkeep your same number id

 

[Guest]

hehe boy do I know this.


Seven times my old computer crashed...... and I still haven't added half the people I used to have

 

[Weird Harold]

Then he moved in and he tried to transfer his account onto my PC. We thought it would be straight-forward. We were wrong.

I don't use ICQ, so I don't know what filename you should look for exactly, but check the folder that ICQ is installed in, for a file named "user0000.dat" or something similar.

If there are two "user.dat" files, then ICQ supports separate contact lists for individual users on the same computer. Once you determine which file has the second user's contact list in it, go to the computer his account used to be on, and copy necessary file to disk and load it on to your computer in place of the one that installing his account on your system created, using the same filename as the new file used.

(If his contact list is "user0001.dat" on your system and "user0000.dat" on the system he used to use, copy user0000.dat from the old system, rename it to user0001.dat, and overwrite the existing file on your system.)

There may be more than one file involved -- user0001.dat and user0001.idx for example. Coppy all files that pertain to his account from the old system and install them on yours.

WARNING: Copy all files involved to a temporary directoy before trying this! ICQ may not accept this sort of change and reset both accounts to start over. Restoring the original files should restore the existing state of affairs.

Note to other ICQ users: If you can find the data files that contain the contact list on your system, saving them to floppy disk every time you make a change to your contact list, you won't have to rebuld it if your computer crashes.

 

[InternationalFunboy]

Harold you really do have all the answers....

I'm a long time ICQ'er and I can provide some details.
Harrykins is on the money........the .idx and .dat files are the ones you need, they are named for the user ID so for example mine would be 11682290.dat and 11682290.idx

ICQ doesn't "remember" your list and history like Todd said, but it does give you another option. It has a Database converter that will allow you - with the above files - to move from pc to pc and version to version of ICQ and keep all the people on your list, your history and adress book...........the whole schmear...

Usually after replacing the .dat and .idx files it will run automatically the next time you start up ICQ with that account. If not, you can run it from the start menu.

 

[Passionnee]

Like Todd said..

Every time you change computers, you have to rebuild your list. But the persons you have on your list, still sees you.

 

[lavender]