Fw: Question about a new feature

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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:01 AM, 1 2 <putza17500 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I am using pidgin since 2009 and I am recording all conversations.
> I have 5 mail accounts opened in the same time.
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> Can someone add a feature to zip all the logs? Let's say if the log file is older then 1 month move it automaticly to the archive? I have some small problems when I make a backup/restore to my operating sistem (win2008 server)


I think this is not the best place to discuss such an enhancement.

I suggest you to go to the pidgin page and file an enhancement ticket.
http://developer.pidgin.im
 
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From: 1 2 <putza17500 at yahoo.com>
To: Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Question about a new feature
 


I can do that also in windoes no problem, but I was wondering if somebody can add an feature in the pidgin, something like an plugin. Some years ago when I had small HDD i had a program that could keep files zipped and I could interact with the information on the fly.(without unziping it, I just entered in the zip file jost like in any other folder)

My big councerns are the number of files not the size.

Or could you write an plugin to make compact logs for every month? So I could have 12 files/mounth/id? Now I have hundreds of small files/month/id


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 From: Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im>
To: 1 2 <putza17500 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: support at pidgin.im 
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: Question about a new feature
 

I am moving this thread to support at pidgin.im, where it more properly
belongs.

1 2 spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I am using pidgin since 2009 and I am recording all conversations.
> I have 5 mail accounts opened in the same time.

This is common, and supported.

> Can someone add a feature to zip all the logs? Let's say if the log
> file is older then 1 month move it automaticly to the archive? I have
> some small problems when I make a backup/restore to my operating
> sistem (win2008 server)

I'm sorry to hear that your OS and/or backup program is so limited.
Unfortunately, this is not something that Pidgin handles, or should
handle.  The way Pidgin logs are stored, this is trivially handled by
an external program, and that would be our recommendation for this
case.  If you were on a Unix
 system you could handle this with a cron
job and a five line shell script.  On Windows, I don't know how you
would accomplish the same thing, but I am sure there is a way.

Ethan
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