[Pidgin] #5895: How to restore buddy list?

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#5895: How to restore buddy list?
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  Reporter:  aprochaska    |       Owner:  siege
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:       
 Component:  unclassified  |     Version:  2.4.2
Resolution:                |    Keywords:       
   Pending:  0             |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * owner:  lschiere => siege

Comment:

 Ah, for protocols that don't have server-side lists pidgin obviously can't
 fetch the list from there. But in that case I would imagine that simply
 restoring the blist.xml file while pidgin wasn't running would be enough
 (as there won't be any server information to contradict the local
 storage). But then again I don't know anything about Sametime/Meanwhile.

 As to restoring the buddy list information correctly if copying blist.xml
 in to place manually doesn't work you could try using the listhandler
 plugin like I mentioned before, or you could extract the buddy names from
 blist.xml and write a pidgin plugin to read them from a file and re-add
 them, etc.

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