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sloggerkhan
October 31st, 2009, 11:16 PM
Every time I launch empathy it offers to import my pidgin contacts, I hit yes or whatnot, and then empathy opens and my contacts have not been imported.

Needless to say I am continuing to use pidgin in the meantime, but it would like to know if there's a fix so I can give empathy a try.
pablo180
November 3rd, 2009, 01:27 AM
I'm getting the same issue since Karmic. I had used Empathy before, but now I just get the same screen every time I use it. I am also just sticking with Pidgin till this is fixed.
h6w
November 5th, 2009, 02:03 AM
I've reported a bug about this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/474929

It seems, however, that this is caused by IRC accounts stopping the import process:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388906
firfin
November 17th, 2009, 08:28 PM
I Just tried to import without importing my irc accounts (unchecked the IRC accounts) Still no contacts get imported.
wobb
November 17th, 2009, 09:29 PM
Every time I launch empathy it offers to import my pidgin contacts, I hit yes or whatnot, and then empathy opens and my contacts have not been imported.

Needless to say I am continuing to use pidgin in the meantime, but it would like to know if there's a fix so I can give empathy a try.

Same here too. I have switched to aMSN.
Cheers,
firfin
November 18th, 2009, 12:42 AM
I'm sorry for the misinformation. Unchecking IRC contacts DID work for importing the rest of the accounts. It just took a while for the contacts list to fill (next reboot they were there.)

BTW it helps to have telepathy-idle installed (by default for me (karmic upgrade from jaunty), but that's what I gathered from bug reports)
MikeFlint
February 12th, 2010, 09:32 PM
I was having the same problem ... launch Empathy ... offer Pidgin account import, accept, nothing happens.


I tried this about 4 times.

Having checked I have all the dependencies in synaptic (I did), I tried Empathy from a terminal to see if I was getting any errors. After a long delay (about 20 seconds), I was eventually shown my account with a tick-box to make it active, and then it seemed to work.

Quite why it failed to start with is a mystery. I'll keep Pidgin around in case.