Pidgin in a TrueCrypt Volume

[Richard Laager]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 22:20 -0400, John Bailey wrote:
> muffet wrote:
> > Is there a way to keep everything in the TrueCrypt volume with the regular
> > Pidgin ap?  Or do I need to install Portable Pidgin (with the OTR included)
> > into my TC volume?  
> 
> The location of Pidgin's configuration directory (which includes logs) can be
> changed by creating a .bat file that calls Pidgin with the -c argument.  If your
> TrueCrypt volume is mounted with Windows drive letter T:, then your script would
> look something like this:
> 
> @echo off
> "C:\Program Files\Pidgin\pidgin.exe" -c T:\.purple

Or you could set the environment variable PURPLEHOME to "T:\" (for
example).

Richard