[Pidgin] #3581: Buddy List Backup on System Crash

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#3581: Buddy List Backup on System Crash
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Reporter:  prozach      |       Owner:  lschiere    
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new         
Priority:  minor        |   Component:  unclassified
 Version:  2.2.1        |    Keywords:              
 Pending:  0            |  
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 My computer has crashed twice, just a quick/cold/hard blue screen of death
 then reboot.  The problem is when the computer comes back up Pidgin has
 problems reading my buddy list, as if it was in the middle of a write or
 some such when it happened.  I'm able to get my buddy list back from the
 various servers I connect to but it's a pain as I have to then re-order
 the groups as well as re-combine the buddies.

 It appears that Pidgin opens the buddy list when it launches then saves it
 back to disk whenever it closes, would it be possible to have a
 buddylist.bkp file (or some such) that stores a backup copy of the buddy
 list and is updated and saved whenever the buddy list is changed in the
 application.  This way, if pidgin has an issue reading the buddy list at
 start up it can revert to the backup copy rather than re-pulling from the
 servers and loosing all the ordering/combining of contacts and groups.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3581>
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