From wheelie207 at ownmail.net Fri Sep 24 17:14:23 2021 From: wheelie207 at ownmail.net (Harold Hartley) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:14:23 -0700 Subject: moving to another computer Message-ID: I first sign on to XMPP with pidgin with one computer and now that computer will be going offline and switching to another computer. How can I keep the fingerprint of pidgin to my XMPP account the same or does it matter. What happens to my account when I start using the newer computer. Will it screw up my account or what. From rgm at htt-consult.com Fri Sep 24 17:29:22 2021 From: rgm at htt-consult.com (Robert Moskowitz) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:29:22 -0400 Subject: moving to another computer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <222be6db-dead-722a-9a1a-210fecdaee27@htt-consult.com> On my Fedora system I have a ~/.purple directory with all my pidgin stuff. On 9/24/21 5:14 PM, Harold Hartley wrote: > I first sign on to XMPP with pidgin with one computer and now that > computer will be going offline and switching to another computer. > > How can I keep the fingerprint of pidgin to my XMPP account the same > or does it matter. What happens to my account when I start using the > newer computer. Will it screw up my account or what. > > _______________________________________________ > Support at pidgin.im mailing list > Want to unsubscribe?  Use this link: > https://lists.pidgin.im/listinfo/support From pidgin at alexoren.com Fri Sep 24 18:00:39 2021 From: pidgin at alexoren.com (pidgin at alexoren.com) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:00:39 -0400 Subject: moving to another computer In-Reply-To: <222be6db-dead-722a-9a1a-210fecdaee27@htt-consult.com> References: <222be6db-dead-722a-9a1a-210fecdaee27@htt-consult.com> Message-ID: <4fec7b89-9386-a55d-b4c7-68e6661be23f@alexoren.com> On 2021-09-24 17:29, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On my Fedora system I have a ~/.purple directory with all my pidgin stuff. ... and on Windows it's in %APPDATA%\.purple Just copy that directory over to the new computer (when Pidgin is not running) and everything should be good. > On 9/24/21 5:14 PM, Harold Hartley wrote: >> I first sign on to XMPP with pidgin with one computer and now that computer will be going offline and switching to another computer. >> >> How can I keep the fingerprint of pidgin to my XMPP account the same or does it matter. What happens to my account when I start using the newer computer. Will it screw up my account or what.