Import tox id

[idmacdonald]

Is it possible to set Toxic to use a pre-exisiting tox id on startup? Or import a tox id generated in another program?

I have a tox id generated in qTox, which I have been able to export/import to qTox installations on a number of different devices. It would be great to be able to import a tox id into toxic.

I can see that both qtox and toxic edit my ~/.config/tox/data file when they run, but I don't seem to be able to use the same tox id in toxic and qTox or be able to import a pre-existing tox id into toxic. I am not sure if this is a support or feature request, but any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
-Ian

[dubslow]

qTox reads, but does not write, the data file. That's deprecated, and in the future will not even read data. The standard is to use the .tox file extension for your profiles. I don't know how Toxic works in this regard.

[idmacdonald]

I have found that I can take a qTox profile export .tox file and rename it to .ratox.tox and ratox will load the profile file. However, I've not been able to get toxic to do the same thing.

[JFreegman]

The -f flag will either use an existing data file, or create one if it doesn't exist. for example, toxic -f ~/.config/tox/qtox_profile.tox - will use that existing profile, and toxic -f temp will create a new profile called temp in your pwd.

Toxic's default data file path is ~/.config/tox/data

[dubslow]

@JFreegman Consider changing the default to toxic.tox :) That way other clients will see it no problem, and Toxic will also see other clients' profiles no problem.

[JFreegman]

I'll consider it

[idmacdonald]

I see now that I can export a tox profile from qTox and then use toxic -f SOMEID.tox to load that profile into toxic. I thought I had tried that before, but I guess I made some sort of error. Thanks for your help!

[JFreegman]

no problem