Upgrading from GAIM

[Mark Doliner]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Mike Webb<weeble7591 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using GAIM 1.5.0 for some time (it came with my copy of Puppy
> Linux) and have been quite content with it. Up until now, I've seen no
> reason to upgrade to Pidgin. I am presently running Puppy Linux 3.01.
>
> Now there's a reason. I'm getting messages from Yahoo! that support (I
> presume protocol support) for the "Yahoo! Messenger" (hee hee hee) I'm using
> expires August 15. I'm presuming Pidgin will take me back into the
> "supported" realm, and have installed it.
>
> 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?
>
> Any help along this line will be appreciated. The 15th is only 3 days away!
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Webb

Pidgin attempts to migrate all your settings from Gaim.  So you
shouldn't need to do anything special--your settings and accounts
should all be imported automatically.

-Mark