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This may have been discussed before, but I couldn’t find anything when I searched the forums, so I thought I would put it out there for answer by those obviously much more well versed in these things than myself.
I’m running AIM (can’t remember the version for the life of me) on my home computer (I’m in the office right now) and in conjunction, the latest release of AIMutation (RIP my firiend … ) and have a question about the logging feature. I switched to AIMutation from DeadAIM about a year back, and was bothered by the difference in “titling” of the logs. Whereas DeadAIM titled them by day and date, AIMutation uses a series of numbers that I tried to decipher (for about 5 seconds), to no avail. I was hoping to consolidate specific peoples’ logs by renaming the ones from DeadAIM to match the ones from AIMutation, but have no clue what a valid, “indeaxable” filename would be. Anyone know if A)the two can even be compatible (I can’t see why not .. they’re simply html/htm files) and B)what the naming structure would be for AIMutation?? Thanks in advance.
ABlu
DragonSlayerz wrote:They can be combined (aiMutation and DeadAIM) but there might be some errors.I figured they could be, but now I’m wondering if maybe it would cause some type of error in the AIMutation log “browser”.
So, any idea what the numbers in the file names represent?? I tried to find some kind of pattern, but it looked to me to be almost completely random. I had a thought for about 2 seconds that maybe they were some kind of hex representation of the day/date/time, but I didn’t bother following through with that line of thought because, in all honesty, I was too lazy to look into it đŸ˜‰ .
ABlu
I have no clue what they were, I would just adjust to it, there won’t be an error because they’re working seperately not together.
ridv34 wrote:I believe the names are Unix time stamps.I compared the file names to Unix timestamps, and it would appear to me that you are correct, so I thank you very much for your help.
I googled unix timestamps and found a website that would convert a particular date/time combination to a unix timestamp and vice versa, so I thought I would try renaming a random log file to the unix equivalent. It converted the numbers, gave me what appeared to be a suitable conversion, but when I saved it, the file was not viewable in my AIMutation log manager. Is it possible that AIMutation has its own “spin” on these timestamps that make anything not created in AIMutation unrecognizable? In the grand scheme, it’s not vital I convert them all to the same viewer, but it’s something I’d be interested in cracking.
Thanks again for your help. I never would have guessed the Unix coding.
No problem.:)
And as far as your next problem goes, I think I know of a program that would do this for you. It is meant to convert logs from DA to Messenger:Mate. As you may or may not know, the guy who make M:M is the same guy who made AIMutation. And I think there is more than a good chance that this will convert your DA logs into AIMutation readable logs.
The problem doesn’t lie in the names, I think it lies in the different files that are made by these two different programs. For M:M, the native AOL rich text format is used for saving the conversations. On the other hand DA uses regular HTML. Hence the M:M log can’t read the DA logs. It may be the same case for the AIMutation log manager.
The reason I know all this is because I’m an M:M user and active in their forums. Thats how I knew that the AIMutation used Unix time stamps to name their logs. Since the AIMutation project is dead, I suggest you take a look at M:M. Its easily one of the best plug-ins out there.
ridv34 wrote:No problem.:)And as far as your next problem goes, I think I know of a program that would do this for you. It is meant to convert logs from DA to Messenger:Mate. As you may or may not know, the guy who make M:M is the same guy who made AIMutation. And I think there is more than a good chance that this will convert your DA logs into AIMutation readable logs.
The problem doesn’t lie in the names, I think it lies in the different files that are made by these two different programs. For M:M, the native AOL rich text format is used for saving the conversations. On the other hand DA uses regular HTML. Hence the M:M log can’t read the DA logs. It may be the same case for the AIMutation log manager.
The reason I know all this is because I’m an M:M user and active in their forums. Thats how I knew that the AIMutation used Unix time stamps to name their logs. Since the AIMutation project is dead, I suggest you take a look at M:M. Its easily one of the best plug-ins out there.
You …. are my hero. I hopped on over to the M:M website and fell in love with everything … including the price. I downloaded it and spent the entire day yesterday playing with it, customizing it, converting and searching logs. GREAT add-on. Thanks for the suggestion!
AmbientBlu wrote:You …. are my hero. I hopped on over to the M:M website and fell in love with everything … including the price. I downloaded it and spent the entire day yesterday playing with it, customizing it, converting and searching logs. GREAT add-on. Thanks for the suggestion!Glad you like the add on. Personally I don’t think anything out there compares. The developer is very dedicated and actually listens to what the people want. Not to mention there are constant updates đŸ˜€
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