All my Pidgin accounts have disappeared

Barbara Kroczak Barbara.Kroczak at Sun.COM
Thu Apr 24 12:06:07 EDT 2008


The local aliases I set up for my buddies also seem to have disappeared 
- not sure why.
But I can live with that...

Could you tell me where they're stored so I can back those up too?

Etan Reisner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:00:03PM -0700, Barbara Kroczak wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Etan!
>>
>> I actually recreated my 4 accounts and was thrilled to find that my
>> buddies were more or less all there on the servers.  But I'll do what
>> you suggest for next time!
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>     
>
> Assuming the only file that was corrupted was the accounts.xml file (and
> not any of the other pidgin .xml files) then your buddy and preference
> storage in pidgin was unaffected. accounts.xml only stores the accounts
> themselves. Not buddy list information.
>
>     -Etan
>   




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