Recovering Log or Buddylist

[Rich Allcorn]

Buddy list is a list of accounts on the server. If the server goes off-line, those accounts go off-line, and are no longer available, until the server comes back up.  

It’s like a telephone landline account. You have your landline account through the phone company. If the phone company goes down, sodas your landline. The only way you could keep that landline would be reported out and take it with you, something it’s not available with user accounts on servers.

If you use Google as your box server, your Google account will always be active only because Google is always available and online.




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On Nov 8, 2017, at 20:08, Richard Hector <richard at walnut.gen.nz> wrote:

That assumes the friend is (was) on the server that's down. I assumed it
was the poster's server which was no longer active.

~/.purple/blist.xml seems to have my buddy list on linux; I don't know
where it would be on other systems.

Likewise, ~/.purple/logs/jabber/<my_user_id>/ seems to contain all my
chat logs - arranged by remote user id, which is convenient for this case.

Richard

> On 09/11/17 10:30, Rich Allcorn wrote:
> If the server is down, there will be no point in locating the account ID. 
> It will be inactive.
> 
> I would recommend doing a Google search (not Bing) on the user's
> information, to see if you can locate an alternative account they may be
> using, so you can regain communications with them.
> 
> 
> 
> - /rich/ -
> 
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> 
> 15612 Poynette Place, Austin Texas  78717-5351  USA
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>      146.640MHz & 466.000  | GMRS  ch21/code7    "DJ"   
> 
> A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men
> ...    [Proverbs 18:16  NASB]
>  
> 
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> (.vcf)  |  Android
> <http://allcorn.us/rich/contact-info/Richard%20A.%20Allcorn%20%28Guardian%29.csv>
> (.csv)  |  Windows
> <http://allcorn.us/rich/contact-info/Richard%20A.%20Allcorn%20%28Guardian%29.csv> (.csv)
>   +  add  Headshot
> <http://allcorn.us/rich/contact-info/Richard%20A.%20Allcorn%20%28Guardian%29.jpg> (.jpg)   
>    
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> 
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> 
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:45 PM, <skitzo at gmail.com
> <mailto:skitzo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>    Hello,
> 
>    I am trying to recover a friend's jabber username that I used to
>    talk to over Pidgin. I am trying to locate log files to find it or
>    perhaps a buddy list if it is somehow saved. I no longer have access
>    to the jabber account because the server is no longer active. Any ideas?
> 
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