Re: Re: Gossip 0.10.2 won't find settings from Gossip 0.9

Blenda wrote:
>  >> Now Gossip won't find my saved
>  >> settings (account information) although they are still
>  >> located
>  >> in ~/.gnome2/Gossip/
>  >>
>  >> Does anyone know why it's like that?
> 
>  > Did you install it to a different prefix at all?
> 
> I've never done a manual install of Gossip from the source, I've 
> installed it from the .deb packages provided by Ubuntu.
> 
>  > I am just guessing at this point, but it is quite likely that
>  > your
>  > ~/.gnome2/Gossip/accounts.xml file references a DTD file in a
>  > location
>  > which doesn't exist? Either that or perhaps the old
>  > accounts.xml from
>  > 0.9 does not comply with the DTD for 0.10.2.
>  >
>  > What error do you get?
> 
> When I start Gossip I just get the "Welcome to Gossip/New Account" 
> dialog. When I cancel it, Gossip says "You have no Instant Messaging 
> accounts configured! Next you will be presented with the Account 
> Information dialog to set your details up." My old account is not listed 
> in that dialog.
> 
> It seems that my account information is located in a file called 
>  ~/.gnome2/Gossip/Accounts. It's not in XML format.
> 
> I guess I just could fill in that information again in the Account 
> Information dialog to solve the problem.

Yea, the old format was an INI type format and is completely 
incompatible with the new XML stuff. Sorry.

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Regards,
Martyn