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does anyone here use an email account that ISNT hotmail? copying your contacts from messenger to them is a pain. i had about 500 contacts at one stage.

if anyones interested, i have written a basic program that can do the hard part of the job for you. its called MSN2CSV. all you have to do is save your contact list (works with both MSN and WLM contact lists), then MSN2CSV can convert the file to a CSV file, which is used by almost every email service there is.

instead of copying my contacts one by one from MSN to my gmail account (which i mainly use), it took me just a couple of minutes by using MSN2CSV instead.

furthermore, you can do it in 2 ways: either a simple conversion of one contact list to a CSV file, or an advanced method, which can combine multiple contact lists to one CSV file, and can also let you name each contact if you choose.

if it sounds like this could be any use to you, go to http://msn2csv.wordpress.com and check the Download page to get it.

any feedback is appreciated. speaking of which, sorry for the ugliness lol, its an old version of visual basic i wrote it with. am working on a modern one now.

thanks!
09-30-2009 01:20 PM
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RE: Copying Contacts to non-Hotmail Email Accounts
You can save the contact list as a CSV already from within WLM. It has been there since the old MSN Messenger days.

But none the less it looks good.

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09-30-2009 02:46 PM
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you sure? i can only save contact lists to CTT files, not CSV :S

and thanks for the comment :)
09-30-2009 04:20 PM
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You can save the contact list as a CSV already from within WLM. It has been there since the old MSN Messenger days.

But none the less it looks good.

I thought so too, but checked before I posted and could only find .ctt as well =/
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RE: Copying Contacts to non-Hotmail Email Accounts
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You can save the contact list as a CSV already from within WLM. It has been there since the old MSN Messenger days.

But none the less it looks good.

I thought so too, but checked before I posted and could only find .ctt as well =/
It has been so long since I have done it, isn't the CTT file simple a CSV? The more I think about it the more I realize its similar to an XML... FML.

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nah, CSV is Comma Separated Values, nothing like XML lol

this is my 2 email addresses in a CTT file:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<messenger>
  <service name=".NET Messenger Service">
    <contactlist>
      <contact type="1">mitcho1989@hotmail.com</contact>
      <contact type="1">mitcho1989@gmail.com</contact>
    </contactlist>
  </service>
</messenger>

in a CSV file:
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Name,E-mail Address
Mitch,mitcho1989@hotmail.com
Mitch,mitcho1989@gmail.com

too many file formats! lol
10-01-2009 01:33 AM
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It would be possible for a script to output all contacts to a CSV file...

If you wanted to make it even easier that is ;) lol

This post was edited on 10-01-2009 at 07:12 AM by Spunky.
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10-01-2009 07:11 AM
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i was hoping to be able to do that eventually. just gotta be bothered to sit down and read up on how to make scripts lol.

im barely a programmer lol ive done a small bit of visual basic, thats it.
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I started off with VBA and VB6... It's easy enough to learn, but I would say the syntax is closer to C++ rather than VB, but is obviously closest related to Javascript. I'll knock the script up tonight and comment it and see if you can pick anything up
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10-01-2009 09:15 AM
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thanks mate, much appreciated :) lol
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