Can't say where exactly, but pretty sure this was covered recently on the list, 
and the file now resides umder ~/.config/ with a similar but not identical name

On October 9, 2025 9:33:46 PM GMT+01:00, ael via Linphone-users 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 04, 2025 at 09:59:39PM +0100, ael via Linphone-users wrote:
>> Following on from my previous post:-
>> 
>> > I am using the linux desktop on linux (debian and devuan).
>> > 
>> > I have linphone working properly on one laptop, and have installed a new 
>> > copy of linphone
>> > on a new laptop: Desktop 5.3.0 - QT5. 15.2. It seems to be working but I 
>> > don't want to 
>> > go through a laborious process of hand copying my settings from one 
>> > machine to the new
>> > one.
>> > 
>> > I expected that just copying ~/.linphonerc would do most of the work, 
>> > especially my
>> > several SIP accounts. But it looks as if ~/.linphonerc is no longer used: 
>> > it seems to
>> > contain almost no information.
>> > 
>
>The silence on this thread perhaps indicates that linphone can't handle this 
>at present?
>
>Meanwhile I have made more attempts and experiments, and I seem to have 
>partially succeeded.
>
>Somehow, the linphone.db on the target machine has a "sip_address" table that 
>contains my contacts.
>linphone is still refusing to read friends.db. I wonder whether Desktop 5.3.0 
>has stopped using friends.db?
>
>But when I click on the Contacts icon, and am presented with the "search 
>contact" box, no contacts are found.
>In contrast, typing into the top "Search contact, start a call...." box, my 
>contacts are found.
>
>Is this a bug in linphone, or an artifact of the way I tried to install 
>linphone on the new machine?
>
>But at least I can now use my previous 104 contacts!
>
>I didn't say before that this was on linux (devuan and debian) although I 
>though that would be obvious from
>the file names.
>
>ael
>
>
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