Game Guides Archive
Thread: From which file can I copy/paste my friends list onto notepad?
Myrathi wrote:
Go into the folder where you installed SWG and look for the following path:
- ..\profiles\ACCTNAME\SERVER\#####_friend_data.iff
ACCTNAME is your login name.
SERVER is well, um, the server you want the friend list from.
##### is an internal ID that the server uses; ignore it.
Load that file into your favorite editor and be prepared for a headache... 'cause it's got loads of control codes in it (and is in"unicode" format to boot).
With a fair bit of hand-editing, you'll be fine. It's all stored as you'd see it in your friend list... "Name / Surname / Comments". Just gotta do a bit of legwork.
Enjoy.
You can however type /note and bring up a note pad where you can type in all the names in your friends list.
There may be a more effective way, but since no one else has offerd anyything...
- ..\profiles\ACCTNAME\SERVER\#####_friend_data.iff
ACCTNAME is your login name.
SERVER is well, um, the server you want the friend list from. 
##### is an internal ID that the server uses; ignore it.
Load that file into your favorite editor and be prepared for a headache... 'cause it's got loads of control codes in it (and is in"unicode" format to boot).
With a fair bit of hand-editing, you'll be fine. It's all stored as you'd see it in your friend list... "Name / Surname / Comments". Just gotta do a bit of legwork. 
Enjoy.
Myrathi wrote:
Go into the folder where you installed SWG and look for the following path:
- ..\profiles\ACCTNAME\SERVER\#####_friend_data.iff
ACCTNAME is your login name.
SERVER is well, um, the server you want the friend list from.
##### is an internal ID that the server uses; ignore it.
Load that file into your favorite editor and be prepared for a headache... 'cause it's got loads of control codes in it (and is in"unicode" format to boot).
With a fair bit of hand-editing, you'll be fine. It's all stored as you'd see it in your friend list... "Name / Surname / Comments". Just gotta do a bit of legwork.
Enjoy.
BidoXP wrote:
yeh but i think that file only stores the group/comments info on each friend.
whenever you format your pc youll still have the same list of friends, but it just clears all the groups and comments. the list of people is saved server side and that file you mentioned will let you edit the other info if you like doing things the hard way
yeh i did try it earlier, ive got 2 people from another server that i cant get rid of, so deleted the people on the list, logged back in and still their
Myrathi wrote:
Hm. Don't think so. With the frequent client crashesI suffer, I'm used to the thing resetting my UI and keybinds and, hence, backup my profiles daily... i found out the hard way that overwriting the friendlist with an older one does, in fact, delete the newly added/deleted friends. So the file in this folder does have an impact on your in-game friends-list (similarly, your "chat logs" are saved in one of these files, so replacing one with an old file reverts your chatlog to whatever it was when you saved!)
You can test the theory... take a copy of the friend list... go in-game and add 10 random people to it. logout. replace the friend file. log in again et voila! you're back to the original friend list you saved.
Myrathi wrote:
Removing friends-list entries from another server requires using a /command. It's not possible to remove them via the UI or via the list in your profile folder (don't ask me why... all I know is it has something to do with cross-referencing of servers *shrug*).
Say you want to remove the name of someone who's on Starsider... the command would be as follows:
/removeFriend starsider.charname
That'll remove the entry properly.
The only exception to the "straight server names" (that I know of)are the European servers... they have a "europe-" prefix to "Infinity", "Farstar" and "Chimaera". Weird.
Hope that helps (if you didn't know it already)
/removeFriend starsider.charname
BidoXP wrote:
yeh tried that already, their from a europe server and that commands not working
Tango88 wrote:
Thks all for your replies..... What I did was to enlarge the friend's list as big as possible,took screen shots of it and printed it out.
that was one of the first things i done months ago, they just said they couldnt remove them for me and i should /bug it and hope the devs fix it. kind of given up on it till i saw this post and now ive gone back to fougedaboutin it
Myrathi wrote:
BidoXP wrote:
yeh tried that already, their from a europe server and that commands not working
Weird... works for me.
Lob a support-ticket in the works, perhaps?