Deleted saved status reappears

[Ken Watson (kwatson)]

I do appreciate your advice, but I have done that a couple of times to
no avail.  Could it be pulling a cache from a jabber server, or does it
not work that way?

:(

-----Original Message-----
From: Dagobert Duck [mailto:dagobertduck at vodafone.de] 
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 2:52 PM
To: Ken Watson (kwatson)
Subject: Re: Deleted saved status reappears

Am 28.01.2011 20:45, schrieb Ken Watson (kwatson):
> Dagobert,
> 
> I tried that, but the saved status window is empty.  Nothing to click 
> on or delete.  ??
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dagobert Duck [mailto:dagobertduck at vodafone.de]
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 2:40 PM
> To: Ken Watson (kwatson)
> Subject: Re: Deleted saved status reappears
> 
> Am 28.01.2011 20:33, schrieb Ken Watson (kwatson):
>> I have tried and tried to fix this, but nothing works.  I've seen the

>> older posts about it that say it was a bug that was fixed, but I 
>> still
> 
>> have the problem.  Several years ago I created a custom saved status 
>> for use when idle.  Now I don't want that to appear, but want the 
>> vanilla "Away" message to appear.*//*
>>
>>  
>>
>> -          First, mousing over the saved status and hitting delete
> does
>> remove it.  But it comes back after a few minutes.
>>
>> -          Next, I tried that again, closing Pidgin and then
> restarting
>> it.  The deleted saved status came back after a few minutes.
>>
>> -          Then, I closed Pidgin, went to ~/.purple and deleted the
>> saved status from the status.xml file (from <status to </status>), 
>> and
> 
>> restarted Pidgin.  The deleted status came back after a few minutes.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Is the saved status stored on a server somewhere?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Using Linux Mint 10, Pidgin 2.7.3, XMPP (jabber) account.
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> 
> Just do the following: Right click on the Pidgin tray icon, go to 
> "change status", click on "saved....". Now a menue should appear, 
> where you can select and then delete the saved statuses. Tried it 
> under Ubuntu (Mint is based on Ubuntu) and Windows - works fine.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> D.D.
> 
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Then I've no clue. Obviously your Pidgin installation/package is
corrupted. Worst case - uninstall, reinstall.

D.D.