README for nicotine-import-config


nicotine-import-winconfig
=======================

nicotine-import-winconfig is a program to import your queue, user list,
password information, auto-joined chatrooms, banlist, and user
information from the Windows SoulSeek configuration.


Usage
-----

A typical invocation would be

    nicotine-import-winconfig "/mnt/win9x/Program Files/SoulSeek" 

The program should be run when nicotine is _not_ running.  The program
will add the information (download queue, userlist, password info,
etc.)  to the existing configuration or write a new configuration from
scratch when no configuration exists.

The program will overwrite your ~/.nicotine/config file.

You might want to back up the file first, but it should not be
necessary.  A different config file can be choses using the '--config'
flag.  

When you don't want to import all configuration options you can choose
what to import using  command line flags.  Use the --help flag for
more details.

In case there's an image included in the Windows SoulSeek userinfo the
image will be extracted and written to a file:

      <configfile>-userinfo.<ext> 

where <configfile> is the path to your nicotine configfile and
<ext> is the appropiate file extension for the image type.


Redhat 7.x users might have to start the program as

    python2 nicotine-import-winconfig "/mnt/win9x/Program Files/SoulSeek" 

because their default python interpreter is python 1.5 instead of the
newer 2.2 version.  The program fails with python 1.5.


Installation
------------

When nicotine is installed no special installation should be necesary.

However, when you run nicotine from the source tarball it can be
nicotine-import-winconfig cannot find the nicotinek config module.
In this case, copy nicotine-import-winconfig to that directory and run
it from there.


Sharing the download directory between platforms
------------------------------------------------

Nicotine can continue downloads that started on Windows.
Of course, the download directories should be the same for Linux
(FreeBSD?) and Windows.

Example:

- Say your download directory is "/mnt/media/slsk_in"
- Your windows sharing directory is "F:\slsk_in"
- your F drive is mounted on "/mnt/media"


Good luck.

( based on original pyslsk-import-winconfig documentation by:
Geert Kloosterman <geertk@ai.rug.nl> )