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Hello,

I am new to PortableApps and this is my first post.

I tested Pidgin and aMSN, both new for me because I only use WLM.

One problem with Pidgin is that PIDGINLANG must be set to zh_TW in order to send Chinese characters; otherwise I can’t see the characters I am sending myself (the contact receives the right characters, but I only see strange square symbols).

But specifying zh_TW means that the whole interface is changed to Chinese, and this is not what I wanted.

What are the pros and cons, Benefits and drawbacks ?
I see that Pidgin has many more downloads.
Miranda is a much smaller file size.
Pidgin, 4,763,000 total downloads.
Miranda, 548,000.

Hello boys and girls.
Okay don't get me wrong, I like Pidgin too.
I seem to like Gaim a little better, not sure why,
I have had it since I started using PortableApps.
So maybe that's why, but it works.

Is Gaim completely gone ? not being worked on as Gaim at all ?

If it's not being worked on, should I uninstall it,
or delete it ?. I find my self using both of them just to see
if I can find any real differences, and other than security
maybe, Gaim does not double up on names and wierd stuff.
Looks and works fine for me. Lol.

Pidgin is constantly crashing when I change an Alias. I downloaded the newest copy this morning to see if it there was something wrong with the copy I have, but it still crashes. I have tried this out on four different computers before giving up on using aliases. By installing it locally, I can get aliases to work, but not for the portable version.

Wow, I just realized that the above totally makes my sound like a n00b. No clue how to word it better though. Whenever I go to set an alias, Pidgin completely crashes.

Do any of you know if there is a Plugin for Pidgin that enables interactive message notification for pidgin a-la Digsby?

You can reply directly from the message notification. I find this to be very cool and a feature that will add a +2 to productivity for Pidgin.

Here is an image
http://img.digsby.com/tmpl/im_3.png

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as well.

Hey guys, heres the deal.

-At home pidgin works fine for me, even though I'm behind a router (yay).
-At school, I have to change all the connection ports to 80 to avoid being blocked.
-At work, I have to change all my connection ports back to their defaults, because for some reason nothing connects otherwise. (I logged into the router at work and they have no settings for filtering, port forwarding, dmz, or anything at all actually)

It doesn't look like the paths in Pounces.xml are updated when Pidgin loads from a different drive letter. (Example: paths to sound files located on the portable drive.) Is that something weird with my setup, a design feature, or something that got overlooked?

I searched to see if this was asked before but didn't find anything.

File: Data\settings\.purple\pounces.xml

[Subject updated by moderator JTH to track the bug]

Ok,I'm here to ask you all how to properly update portable pidgin in my USB drive to the now latest Pidgin 2.5.2?

In the Portableapps.com Pidgin pages it says

>>>Upgrading Pidgin Portable
To upgrade to a newer version of Pidgin Portable, just install a new version over your current installation. All your settings will be preserved.

---END--

Now last time I tried to upgrade like that, my costume theme, plugins, settings/accountns and smile pack got all deleted.

Hey there,

I want to put my profile e.g. at the desktop of my computer - Miranda Portable is installed on a USB Stick through the suite (Platform Only).

Now, I edited the mirandaboot.ini like this:

ProfileDir=C:\Users\muelli\Desktop\

then I started Miranda through the suite and an error occurred:

http://bayimg.com/image/jalomaabi.jpg

even though I edited the .ini file ...

...after taking a look at the .ini again - it was reset like I never edited it.

Any suggestions how you can run Miranda with the .dat on a different device!?

Pidgin seems like it is reading/writing to the USB when it really shouldn't need to. I don't have a very fast drive, so this is noticeably annoying.

Specific instances are:
- When I double click the tray icon, bringing up my buddy list.
- When I minimize Pidgin to the system tray.
- When I open an new IM window to chat with someone.

Not only does this cause Pidgin to freeze for 1-2 seconds, but the read/writes will slow down anything else I am doing from the USB drive.

The Plugins I have enabled are:

- Guifications
- Pidgin Encryption
- Buddy State Notification