Hi all, Experimenting with roaming profile sync for applications over multiple platform I've stumbled upon a "quirk" (not a bug technically) that is preventing me from obtaining the desired results with Pidgin.
My setup host 1 - Linux Debian Squeeze (xfce) - DropBox ( ~/DropBox) - Encfs (encfs ~/DropBox/INMTXX/encrypted ~/BoxCryptor) - Pidgin (ln -s ~/BoxCryptor/profiles/.pidgin/accounts.xml ~/.purple/accounts.xml) host 2 - Windows 7 x64 - DropBox (c:\Users\dar00st3r\Documents\DropBox) - BoxCryptor (mounted c:\Users\dar00st3r\Documents\DropBox\INMTXX\encrypted as z:) - Pidgin (mklink C:\Users\dar00st3r\AppData\Roaming\.purple\accounts.xml z:\profiles\.pidgin\accounts.xml) My Issue When starting Pidgin (linux or windows) or adding a new account, the accounts.xml seems to be overwritten by the application (it overwrites the created symlink and replaces it by a hard copy of the file in the .purple folder) instead of saving the changes to the linked file. This breaks the sync process for this specific file and new accounts created in Pidgin are not propagated to the other clients. I'm almost sure this has nothing to do with Encfs, BoxCryptor or DropBox as I've had the same behavior (linux and windows) while removing each element out of the equation. Also, using the exact same setup I have successfully synced Pidgin's "logs" and "certificates" folders as well as the sitemanager.xml file for the FileZilla application (which serves the same purpose than the accounts.xml file in Pidgin). My Question 1 - Is there a way to prevent this behavior and have Pidgin save the accounts.xml file transparently without breaking symlinks? Please don't hesitate to get back to me if you require more info. Thanks in advance, Jean-Samuel -- *Jean-Samuel Christophe* Route du Jorat, 25 1052 Le Mont-Sur-Lausanne Mob: +41 79 634 0348 Email: [email protected] Keyserver = None Key = 4096R/D6DE576B 2009-05-29 Key fingerprint = 1C50 9699 6912 CB6C D083 EA04 6D44 BAC0 D6DE 576B
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