Comments on: Merge back your Facebook contacts

By: Malcolm Scott

Malcolm Scott — Mon, 31 May 2010 01:35:47 +0000

Hi Marco,

A case of bad timing here: the Maemo 5 PR1.2 update brought “official” support for Facebook chat, prompting many people such as myself (and I’m guessing the previous couple of commenters) to switch from using Facebook chat configured as a Jabber account to this new method.

However, once again I’ve been left with duplicate contacts — this time I have one set displayed by Contacts as having Jabber addresses ending @chat.facebook.com — which are now useless — and another set displayed as having Facebook chat addresses (with the Facebook icon etc.).

I suspect it would be a relatively easy task to adapt fb-migrator to cover this new type of merging. If you have a moment, it would be very much appreciated if you could add this feature. (I’d have a go but I don’t even have a build environment yet, so it’d take me a while.)

Thanks for a useful utility!

Malcolm

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:19:31 +0000

Same problem as Kamil.

By: Kamil

Kamil — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:30:49 +0000

Hi Marco,

I have downloaded you application but it seems not to be working. It says that there is nothing to do for it as all my contacts are OK, but I do have doubled contacts on my list. I did run harmes again to update them and tried to run your app again with the same results.

Could you please be so kind and help me a bit, will be highly appreciated.

Have a lovely day!
Kamil

By: Facebook and the N900 address book

Facebook and the N900 address book — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:02:10 +0000

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By: Peter Oliver

Peter Oliver — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:26:17 +0000

Am I correct to assume that this will discard the chat history of the merged accounts?

Also, I still have lots of the old pidgin-facebookchat style contacts. Would it be straghtforward to merge those too?

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:59:35 +0000

grazie!

cool stuff

By: Pinguins Móveis » Blog Archive » Sexta super

Pinguins Móveis » Blog Archive » Sexta super — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:54:45 +0000

[...] N8×0 não foram esquecidos pela comunidade Maemo, e isto inclui até Meego, como resolver a quebra do mergins dos contatos Facebook no N900 e como mapear (mesmo!) seus [...]

By: Evandar

Evandar — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:09:44 +0000

Thank you barisione! It is better.

Now there is only one problem – merge again my 350 fcb contacts … :D

Thanks

By: barisione

barisione — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:00:05 +0000

Don’t use the Pidgin plugin for facebook. It’s just a terrible hack that was needed as there was no way to implement cleanly Facebook chat. Now Facebook has an XMPP service, so you should really use that.

Just create a new XMPP account and configure it as explained in http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php
The only things you need are the username (XXX@chat.facebook,com) and your usual password.

By: Evandar

Evandar — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:27:46 +0000

Hi,

I have simmilar problem. I delete my facebook account and add it again, but in new version of Pingin plugin there is field name “Chat Facebook” instead old “Facebook”. And plugin is downloading all contacts again. I have problem also with some contacts, that there are 2 or more fields “Facebook” with identical numbers under one contact (probably it is from merging). Could you fix it with your script? Thanks

Evandar