Reply to CookieRevised: I think there is a little misunderstood. Let me explain a bit more in details:
What I would like is an enhancement of the Import/Export function that is available in pure MSN Messenger... let me remind here some differences between the Import/Export function that is available in pure MSN Messenger and the import/export function wizard that is available in Messenger Plus:
- if I export my contact list with the i/o function of pure MSN Msgr, then I remove one contact from my contact list, and then I import this previously saved contact list with the same i/o function from pure MSN Msgr, the removed contact is restored back (added to my contact list). When I do the same with the i/o wizard of Msgr Plus!, the contact is NOT restored. Therefore this i/o wizard can not be used as a way to backup my contact list itself but only the associated settings...
- the i/o function of pure MSN Msgr uses a TEXT file (which is not encrypted), i.e. you can use it easily with your own programs, or process it and convert it into other formats... (I'm currently developping a centralized contact manager software based on a database... The idea is to type only once all the informations about your contacts: their email, their MSN id, etc... and then you can export this information into several file formats (such as .reg, Outlook .csv or MSN Messenger .ctt) whereas the i/o wizard of Msgr Plus! is in binary format (and the windows registry settings about the contacts seems to be encrypted)...
- I know that "the blocked/not blocked status" and "the contact group in which the contact is located" are all pure Messenger settings and handled by the protocol... Exactly the same way the contacts themselves that are in my contact list are handled too... And it's yet possible to backup on my local hard drive my contact list using the i/o function from pure MSN Msgr and to restore it later, thus overiding the contact list that is downloaded through the protocol. So it should also be possible to correctly place these restored contacts in the original group where they where located and not in the root of my contact list... And it should also be possible to restore they blocked/not blocked status...
In conclusion, What I would like is an enhacement to the pure MSN Messenger i/o function that would restore my contact list as the standard i/o function from pure MSN Msgr does, then moves my restored contacts to the groups where they where originally located when the export was done, and set their blocked/not blocked status as it was when the export was done...
The current situation is quite unsuited. What I have to do for the moment if I want to backup/restore my contact list is the following:
1) export my contact list using the standard i/o function from pure MSN Msgr
2) export associated settings using the i/o wizard function from Msgr Plus!
So I have to perform TWO exports and TWO imports... And even with this, I'm loosing the groups information (because all the contacts are restored in the root) and the blocked/not blocked information... So, to conclude: I have to use TWO i/o functions at the same time, and even with that, the backup/restore is incomplete...
Reply to saralk: Thank you for your advise, but I had already noticed the Plus! > Prefrences > Notifications...
It's better than nothing but it's not helping me a lot: If you want to have an alert for all your contacts when their nickname is changed, you just have to tick the check box in this panel, Perfect !
But what if you want to have an alert for all your contacts except X and Y... ? As it is not possible to define exceptions to this general-rule check box for some of your contacts (because the individual check boxes become disabled, unfortunately !), you have to uncheck this check box (which thus becomes useless) and to manually one by one tick the check box of all your 150 contacts except a few of them (X and Y)... not very practical
