Upgrading from GAIM

[John Bailey]

Mike Webb wrote:
> However, I've not seen any notes on how to make moving to Pidgin an
> actual upgrade in the sense of my accounts, settings, logs and such from
> GAIM being imported into Pidgin. May I simply drag-n-drop my GAIM data
> directories' content into the corresponding Pidgin data directories, or
> is more required? Are there things that have changed so much (such as
> the settings files) that I cannot simply use the GAIM files, but have to
> set it up from scratch?

Upgrading from 1.5.1 or earlier is seamless.  Just back up .gaim before running
Pidgin for the first time in case you run into some weird case we weren't able
to test when we wrote the migration code.

John

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