Skype under Fedora-10

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 22:01:54 UTC 2009


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
>>> I would like to transfer my Skype contacts to someone else,
>>> but don't see any way to do this under Linux.
>> AFAIK your Skype contacts are held by Skype, rather like your Gmail
>> contacts are held by Gmail. I use Skype from several machines and have
>> never had to copy stuff from one to another.
> 
> I'm afraid my solution was to Backup my contacts list
> under Windows XP Skype, and Restore the file when logged in
> as the other user, again under Windows.
> 
> I didn't see this offered under Linux, but I didn't look very carefully.
> 

Contacts for Skype are stored on their servers. All you need to do is 
install skype and sign in with your userid and password to get your 
contacts.

HTH

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