{"id":1477,"date":"2014-09-22T21:32:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T03:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2014-09-22T21:32:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T03:02:57","slug":"how-to-import-your-contacts-from-a-backup-file-into-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-import-your-contacts-from-a-backup-file-into-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Import your Contacts from a Backup File into Skype?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you changed your computers recently, or if you want to transfer contacts from a previous Skype account, you can import contacts into Skype from any backup you have. Contacts in Skype can be imported into your account from any .vcf file format.<br \/>\nHere is how to back up your contacts from Skype:<\/p>\n<p>Step One. Open Skype. Make sure you will not be overriding any contacts you already have, once you install your new contacts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FgKJI1215420e29c10cd6758485067.png\" alt=\"01\" width=\"243\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step Two. Click on the \u201cContacts\u201d tab on the top bar:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nGBAc5025420e2a961e40217143848.png\" alt=\"02\" width=\"298\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step Three. Select \u201cAdvanced\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/YqAUv8995420e2b57a561101955486.png\" alt=\"03\" width=\"338\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step Four. Select \u201cRestore Contacts from File\u2026\u201d from the sub-menu:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/uEcrb5725420e2c3307a7262903092.png\" alt=\"04\" width=\"584\" height=\"177\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step Five. Locate the file containing your backed up contacts. It must be a .vcf format file. Then click \u201cOpen\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MpqUS3875420e2da52929325986451.png\" alt=\"05\" width=\"748\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it, your Skype contacts from the file are added!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you changed your computers recently, or if you want to transfer contacts from a previous Skype account, you can import contacts into Skype from any backup you have. Contacts in Skype can be imported into your account from any .vcf file format. Here is how to back up your contacts from Skype: Step One. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}