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Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful?
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O.P. Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful?
hi, I recently discovered a whole bunch of old logs created by messenger plus (between 2003 and 2005) all saved in plain text. I have been using Pidgin for a while, and I was wondering if anyone knew a fast way (automated) to  convert these legacy logs to another format.

Looking at the logs, there is quite a bit of information missing, so I'm guessing a script will need to ask questions during conversion:
code:
.--------------------------------------------------------------------.
| Session Start: 26 February 2004                                    |
| Participants:                                                      |
|    My user name (**********@hotmail.com)                           |
|    Recipient's user name (*******@hotmail.com)                     |
.--------------------------------------------------------------------.
[16:44:33] My user name: Hello there
[16:45:02] Recipient's : hi
[16:45:49] My user name: How are you?
[16:46:37] Recipient's : I'm ok
[16:46:38] Recipient's : yourself?

So, I'm guessing the script would have to look at that and find the two participants, then ask which user starts with "Recipient's " as the user names get cut off!

I can't find a script or program that does this, and converting the logs by hand takes hours/days/weeks!

Anyone else tried attempting something like this?

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06-18-2010 12:42 PM
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Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 06-18-2010 at 12:42 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by matty on 06-18-2010 at 12:46 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 06-18-2010 at 01:19 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by matty on 06-18-2010 at 01:24 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 06-18-2010 at 01:42 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by Chrissy on 06-18-2010 at 02:00 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 06-18-2010 at 02:05 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by djdannyp on 06-18-2010 at 02:08 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by Chrissy on 06-18-2010 at 02:08 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 06-18-2010 at 02:14 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by Chrissy on 06-18-2010 at 02:17 PM
RE: RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 06-18-2010 at 02:36 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 06-19-2010 at 04:32 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 08-01-2010 at 04:27 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by Phil_123 on 08-05-2010 at 06:57 AM
RE: RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 08-05-2010 at 11:46 AM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 09-11-2010 at 05:42 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by Chrissy on 09-12-2010 at 03:02 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by XP1 on 10-03-2010 at 12:30 AM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 10-03-2010 at 10:22 AM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 10-03-2010 at 11:20 AM
RE: RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by XP1 on 10-03-2010 at 12:57 PM
RE: RE: RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 10-03-2010 at 01:08 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 10-03-2010 at 03:47 PM
RE: RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by XP1 on 10-03-2010 at 05:20 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by CookieRevised on 10-03-2010 at 05:26 PM
RE: RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by XP1 on 10-05-2010 at 01:41 AM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by XP1 on 10-05-2010 at 10:53 PM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by CookieRevised on 10-06-2010 at 09:06 AM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 10-07-2010 at 01:11 AM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by ian_hawdon on 12-02-2010 at 09:32 AM
RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by JimmyJazz on 03-24-2011 at 03:06 PM
RE: RE: Any way to convert legacy (.txt) logs into something useful? - by XP1 on 03-29-2011 at 04:05 PM


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