Password protect contact deletion

**SpinalBlood** · 28 Jun 2007, 5:46 PM

Hi, I would like the following function:

When attemping to delete a contact it just asks a confirm with the yes and no choice.

Instead I would prefer a password box in order to the contact to be deleted.

Is there a plugin that allow this?

**bolf** · 10 Jul 2007, 10:06 AM

I just accidentally deleted a contact so I also want some way to make deleting harder.

There are many ways that could be done:
- password
- remove delete entry from right click menu (that's where my accidental removal started and this feature would be fine for me)
- add an "are you sure?" popup when clicking delete

Is there already some plugin that does any of that?

Also, it would be great with some "undo" feature so that contacts (and their histories) that get deleted can be restored at least until Miranda is shut down.

Also, I have backups of the history for the contact that I deleted (apart from the last week or so). I've re-added the contact with an empty history. What is the easiest way to then import that contacts history (and no other contacts history) from the backup? Do I need some special plugins for that?

cheers

**MataHari** · 10 Jul 2007, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by bolf

- remove delete entry from right click menu (that's where my accidental removal started and this feature would be fine for me)

Can be done with CList Nicer (Options -> Customize -> Menu Order).

- add an "are you sure?" popup when clicking delete

???
Can be done with ALL CList plugins!
(For CList Classic and Nicer: Options -> Contact List)

Also, I have backups of the history for the contact that I deleted (apart from the last week or so). I've re-added the contact with an empty history. What is the easiest way to then import that contacts history (and no other contacts history) from the backup? Do I need some special plugins for that?

mContacts is a good one.
I don't know if it will work in this case, you should do the export also with this plugin.

**bolf** · 10 Jul 2007, 9:35 PM

Originally Posted by MataHari

???
Can be done with ALL CList plugins!
(For CList Classic and Nicer: Options -> Contact List)

Thanks. I really wish that I had that checkbox ticked when I mistakenly clicked delete. Now that I've ticked it I won't repeat the mistake at least.

Originally Posted by MataHari

mContacts is a good one.
I don't know if it will work in this case, you should do the export also with this plugin.

Thanks, I'll try that.
edit: Hm, the site is in polish which I can't read. And why are these plugins not listed on addons.miranda-im.org ?
edit2: found english .txt in the downloaded zip
edit3:it seems mContacts only imports/exports all contacts+their histories. I tried get around that by (in offline mode) deleting all but the relevant contact from a copy of the backuped .dat file, but then I get a message about contacts stored on the server and that the deleting will be finished upon next connect. I'm hesitant to do that - couldn't deleting the contacts screw things up when I next run the current .dat file?