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I use Pidgin to chat with my YM and GTalk friends. Usually, when I am signed into my Gmail account and I'm also connected to Pidgin, I receive my messages in both my browser-integrated Gtalk window and in my Pidgin window in the same time. And when I reply, my answer appears in both places in the same time.

But today, when I checked on my mail account I have noticed an offline message from one of my friends. The message was 4 dais old. The strange thing is that in all these days I did opened my Pidgin app, so I should receive that offline message till now. Strangely, I didn't. Furthermore, when I checked my friend's conversation log file in Pidgin, there was no trace of his words! So, the only logical conclusion is that, somehow, and for reasons that are beyond my understanding, my Pidgin account did not "pulled out" the offline messages from gtalk. Sort to speak, they did not synchronized.

So, I imagine I'm not the first person who encountered this problem. I would like to know what caused it, how an I prevent in the future and how can I keep the conversation synchronized and keep them safe?

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Pidgin won't pull out any offline message you recieve. Pidgin doesn't get or sync the history from your google account, it just stores what it gets in your .purple directoty at the moment is opened.

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  • Thanks, xangua! I was afraid that i would never et an answer! Please, correct me if I am wrong. Should I understand that, in order to store all the messages, I have to keep my Pidgin app opened (I have to be signed in on Pidgin)? Also, thanks for telling me about the purple directory! I did not know about it. So, in order to save my conversations, should I just save the .purple directory? (I mean save it just in case I wont/need/have to change the distro, OS or PC). Jan 23, 2014 at 20:19

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