Skype under Fedora-10

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 01:06 +0100, 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.
> > 
> > We appear to be speaking at cross purposes. I don't understand what you
> > mean by "Backup my contacts list" and "restore the file". Didn't you try
> > simply logging into Skype on the second machine, without copying
> > anything? To repeat, that's all I've ever had to do and all my contacts
> > just follow me around. I've done this on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
> 
> I was trying to copy my Skype contacts list to my wife's Skype account.

OK, that's a completely different situation. In fact I see you did
mention "someone else" in your original post, but I didn't take it in.

I've never tried to do this and have no idea how it's supposed to work.

poc