Linux: How To Share User Logs Between Pidgin Windows & Ubuntu??

Symlinking would be easier and best way to share profile . Ntfs-3g windows drive and symlink .pidgin ( or .purple i am not sure ) from c:\documents and settings\username\Application Data to ur home directory . Any specific reason u dont want to go symlinking ? Other way would be to google for pidgin portable , since it open source i am sure someone would have come up with portable version by now . It will be platform based buy u can figure some way out to share profile .

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Dude OS portability? Not heard of it till now. Possible within Linux distros, but not Windows to Linux. And i haven't seen a portable app for Linux.

See the pidgin documentation , you can make pidgin portable for windows . For linux , use wine to execute it . That would be most pathetic way to run pidgin in linux but i see that as only solution if he doesnt want to symlink anything :P . Its hard to make a portable linux program because of all dependencies and libraries .
Another stupid solution is to run a bash script at startup and shutdown of Ubuntu to copy .purple folder from windows to ubuntu home and overwrite it back during shutdown .

Symlinking is best solution , i just tried it and worked .

rm -fr ~/.purple
ln -s /c/Documents\ and\ Settings/username/Application\ Data/.purple/ ~/.purple

Assuming your windows / shared partition is automounted during bootup, why not put your pidgin profile itself there? That way you dont have to symlink it, although that is the most elegant solution.

Another in-elegant is to keep backiing up the "logs" folder in the ~/.pidgin folder to your windows pidgin's location periodically using rsync or something(never tried it, never would)

Originally Posted by ramaseshan

Assuming your windows / shared partition is automounted during bootup, why not put your pidgin profile itself there?

how do I do that?

Do what? Piutting your pidgin profile in the windows directory? Copy-Paste? Am I missing something here?

^ he means how to make pidgin read profile from windows directory instead of ~/.pidgin

Originally Posted by sneezymelon

P.S: Seems like Pidgin Developers do not wanna help at all :madness:

where did you post/ask? i didn't see any posts on the devel or support mailing lists? did you post on some online forum? try the mailing list if you didnt already...