Recovering Log or Buddylist
Ethan Blanton
elb at pidgin.im
Thu Nov 9 09:37:04 EST 2017
Rich Allcorn wrote:
> 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.
That is not entirely true. We also cache a local copy, which is in
~/.purple/blist.xml. This is the copy that Richard is referring to.
Likewise, the logs are stored locally in ~/.purple/logs/<account id>.
This is in addition to whatever server behaviors may be in effect.
Ethan
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