[Pidgin] #5380: backup accounts before updating, how?

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#5380: backup accounts before updating, how?
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Reporter:  GnomenKlayture  |       Owner:  lschiere    
    Type:  task            |      Status:  new         
Priority:  minor           |   Component:  unclassified
 Version:  2.4.1           |    Keywords:  data loss   
 Pending:  0               |  
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 If I hadn't been synchronizing my USB Key, I would have lost my logon
 information to the 2.4.1 update wiping out my information... I want to
 keep my logs and my accounts information without having to lose the logs
 nor try to get ICQ to let me use my account again... let alone digging out
 my account info again.
 Which files have that information in them? Can we back those off to
 another location and restore them after an update? (Frankly, I am of the
 opinion that said info should not get over-written with each new point
 rev. Hell, if I have to keep going through this loss and re-add of the two
 basic pieces for which I use Pidgin in the first place, I think I may just
 go back to Trillian. At least with Trillian, I knew my logs and account
 information would stay intact from one update to the next. Makes me
 reticent to update.) How can keep my logs and acct info from one update to
 the next? Which files does it reside in? This is a question that is valid
 for both standard and portable Pidgin. Please advise, thanks!

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