Resent: How to change Pidgin's chat log directory?

[Daniel Atallah]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Michael Lee <only4ng at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am resending the below inquiry because it has not been addressed in
> my previous. I'd greatly appreciate your kind understanding and help.
>
> I love archiving chat logs on different drive or partition and
> sometimes perpetually.
> However it does not seem that I can via options change the directory
> via options where Pidgin chat logs are stored. There has to be a trick
> to do that. Please advise. Thank you!
>

This is covered in the FAQ:

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#Wherearemysettingsanddataincludinglogssaved
(Windows) or http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#WherearePidginssettingsandlogs
(Other)

You can't just change the log location, you need to change the
location of all the settings.
-D