[Pidgin] #9532: Logging of this conversation failed - caused by username

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#9532: Logging of this conversation failed - caused by username
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 Reporter:  gerhard.tinned  |     Owner:  rekkanoryo
     Type:  defect          |    Status:  new       
Component:  unclassified    |   Version:  2.5.6     
 Keywords:                  |  
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 I use the skype plug in to connect also to skype users. And i have now a
 contact
 having ".." (2 dots) at the end of his user name. It seems to as it is not
 possible under windows to create such a directory. So it seems that it is
 not
 possible for Pidgin to store the conversation log to a sub directory with
 the
 user name for that reason. At least this is how i would interpret the log
 file.

 Pidgin 2.5.6 (portable version) + Skype plugin

 Here is the log entry i got when trieing to send him a message.
 (13:36:46) log: Could not create log file
 ..\..\..\30_App......in\.purple\logs\skype\my_skype_name\skype_buddy..\2009-06-26.133641+0200CET.html

 The chat window shows me "(13:36:46) Logging of this conversation
 failed.".
 And wenn i try to execute the following command in the copmmand shell to
 write
 to this folder ... it also does not work. I also tried a couple of other
 things
 as you can see in the command output. :-)

 D:\logs>dir
 18.05.2009  11:10    <DIR>          .
 18.05.2009  11:10    <DIR>          ..

 D:\logs>mkdir "test.."

 D:\logs>dir
 18.05.2009  11:10    <DIR>          .
 18.05.2009  11:10    <DIR>          ..
 26.06.2009  13:51    <DIR>          test

 D:\logs>cd "test.."

 D:\logs\test>cd ..

 D:\logs>echo "text" >test..\save.txt
 Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden.
 (Can not find the spezified path)

 D:\logs>echo "text" >"test..\save.txt"
 Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden.
 (Can not find the spezified path)


 As it seems that windows can not relay handle this type of directory
 names,
 it is not possible to write to the log.

 I know that this seems to be a windows bug. But the question is, are you
 trying
 to provide a solution for it? As i do not think that this bug will be
 fixed very
 soon from Microsoft. :-(

 This problem accoutered on Windows XP SP2 as well as on Windows XP SP3.
 But it was not reproduce able on Windows Vista (64bit) SP1.

 If you need any additional information or help on testing or trying
 anything
 related this issue, please feel free to tell me. Would be a pleasure to
 help.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9532>
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