[Pidgin] #11784: cannot save yahoo account

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#11784: cannot save yahoo account
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 Reporter:  ILewis  |        Owner:  datallah       
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new            
Milestone:          |    Component:  winpidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.6.6   |   Resolution:                 
 Keywords:          |  
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Changes (by darkrain42):

  * owner:  rekkanoryo => datallah
  * component:  unclassified => winpidgin (gtk)


Old description:

> I have a gmail account, an aim account, and another XMPP account that are
> saved as my accounts and work fine. whenever i add my yahoo account it
> adds it but when i restart pidgin it's no longer there. The other 3
> accounts are saved just fine.  I keep getting the following errors.
>
> (11:40:42) util: Error renaming
> \\corp.lehighgas.local\Corporate\UserData\ILewis\Application
> Data\.purple\accounts.xml.save to
> \\corp.lehighgas.local\Corporate\UserData\ILewis\Application
> Data\.purple\accounts.xml: Input/output error
>
> (11:40:42) util: Error renaming
> \\corp.lehighgas.local\Corporate\UserData\ILewis\Application
> Data\.purple\blist.xml.save to
> \\corp.lehighgas.local\Corporate\UserData\ILewis\Application
> Data\.purple\blist.xml: Input/output error

New description:

 I have a gmail account, an aim account, and another XMPP account that are
 saved as my accounts and work fine. whenever i add my yahoo account it
 adds it but when i restart pidgin it's no longer there. The other 3
 accounts are saved just fine.  I keep getting the following errors.

 {{{
 (11:40:42) util: Error renaming
 \\corp.lehighgas.local\Corporate\UserData\ILewis\Application
 Data\.purple\accounts.xml.save to
 \\corp.lehighgas.local\Corporate\UserData\ILewis\Application
 Data\.purple\accounts.xml: Input/output error

 (11:40:42) util: Error renaming
 \\corp.lehighgas.local\Corporate\UserData\ILewis\Application
 Data\.purple\blist.xml.save to
 \\corp.lehighgas.local\Corporate\UserData\ILewis\Application
 Data\.purple\blist.xml: Input/output error
 }}}

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Comment:

 My wild guess is that literally no changes are being saved to the network
 drive.  Daniel can confirm, but my recommendation is that you use the Map
 Network Drive functionality to map your application data to a drive letter
 and point Pidgin/Windows' application data folder at that.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11784#comment:1>
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