John Bailey wrote:
Given that this is a problem with other applications (on windows) would the developers accept patches that created a backup when the file changed?This seems to be significantly more common on Windows than it is on UNIX-like systems. As Evan Platt suggested, keep a backup of accounts.xml (ideally the whole .purple directory, whose location is covered in our FAQ) and restore as needed. We've tried a number of things to fix this and it still continues to fail; I think we've reached the limit of what we can reasonably do to fix the problem.
I noticed that Firefox creates a Bookmark backup (or used to in v2) so that if it gets lost in this same way, a user can manually roll back without going to the trouble of locating a system administrator to restore 30kb of data which would probably not get done for 3 days ;-)
Regards Phil Hannent
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