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Portable Pidgin and Safe Eyes

Submitted by wingmanjd on January 1, 2008 - 5:54pm

Hello all,
I'm running the official Pidgin Portable (v2.1.1), and it functions just fine at home or work. However, when I go to a friend's place, and their internet filter Safe Eyes is on, Pidgin freezes. Also, Pidgin causes the Safe Eyes to crash. It will continue to crash until I force quit Pidgin. Then Safe Eyes works again. I realize that this situation isn't common, but any advice would be welcome.

Note: Portable Miranda and regular AIM work just fine on the machine.

Pidgin: Wont let me in

Submitted by radar95 on December 21, 2007 - 2:50pm

I have been using the newest version of pidgin portable without any problems for about a month, but now i click on the icon and it starts its loading process. Once it brings up the small screen that shows the pidgin icon and portable icon it goes no farther. Any ideas of what is going on.

Pidgin: Updating Manually from 2.1.1 to 2.3.1

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Submitted by Gizmokid2005 on December 17, 2007 - 2:16pm

Now, because I know what some people might think this thread is, it's not. I'm not asking when the next release/update will be, but rather a question for those who work behind the scenes.

I just got an idea today, to upgrade my Pidgin from 2.1.1 to 2.3.1. I figured I could easily do it, but just replacing the files in the App/Pidgin/ directory under the PidginPortable folder to the recent files from the standard local install (with the except of the pidgin.exe) and it should run.

Installing Pidgin Plugins

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Submitted by Laibcoms on December 17, 2007 - 3:18am

Hi,

Tried searching but can't find what I am looking for (or I really missed it), but what are the files needed to get a plugin installed 'portable' to Pidgin-Portable? I mean, USB friendly (less writing and stuff)? Any specific files I should concentrate on? Or it's not that simple?

Thanks a bunch. Smile

Best Regards

Pidgin: New Portable Version?

Submitted by Papaganoush on December 14, 2007 - 1:39pm

Greetings,

I really like pidgin portable and realize that I can upgrade my portable installation by running the upgrade from pidgin. However, when I do I no longer have a portable version as it looks for files on the C drive, starts to leave files in my profile. I have tried a couple of times to upgrade this way but each time I end up rolling back to the backup.

So I have 2 questions:
1. what am I doing wrong?
2. will there be a portable update for pidgin 2.3?

Thanks!
Papaganoush

Unofficial Pidgin Portable 2.3

Submitted by engineman on November 29, 2007 - 2:49pm

Hi, I have updated my unofficial package of Pidgin Portable to version 2.3. Please see my blog post here:

http://iamtheengineman.blogspot.com/2007/11/pidgin-portable-updated-to-v...

You can also download the file from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?8mmnmtxs9jc

Please note the following warning from John (one of the great developers here at PortableApps.com)

As stated previously, the installer and launcher are both changing
dramatically in the next release. If you install an unofficial package

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