- Dec 30, 2001
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Here's the deal:
About a year ago I was using Gaim and decided to rename most of my contacts to reflect their real world names instead of their screennames. All was fine and well. I noticed that Gaim stored my Alias information in a file named blist.xml. Fancy.
Fast forward to two months ago. I decided to ghost my machine from a back up so I can start fresh and get the latest drivers installed. I look for the latest version of gaim, but they're still in Beta2 so I wait until they get a version 2.0 final out.
Fast forward to today. I get impatient and grab Trillian. I install it and to my surprise, most of my buddies are already renamed just like in Gaim. Where did Trillian grab this information? Is it now stored on AOL servers just like the buddy list? It couldn't have grabbed it from an old blist.xml since I had essentially reformatted and didn't have Gaim installed. Also, I'm disappointed that CeruleanStudios would program Trillian to use profile folders within the installation folder itself instead of my specific user profile folder.
Any insight?
Edit:
Just noticed that there is an option to store your individual settings to your user profile, but it's not chosen by default.
About a year ago I was using Gaim and decided to rename most of my contacts to reflect their real world names instead of their screennames. All was fine and well. I noticed that Gaim stored my Alias information in a file named blist.xml. Fancy.
Fast forward to two months ago. I decided to ghost my machine from a back up so I can start fresh and get the latest drivers installed. I look for the latest version of gaim, but they're still in Beta2 so I wait until they get a version 2.0 final out.
Fast forward to today. I get impatient and grab Trillian. I install it and to my surprise, most of my buddies are already renamed just like in Gaim. Where did Trillian grab this information? Is it now stored on AOL servers just like the buddy list? It couldn't have grabbed it from an old blist.xml since I had essentially reformatted and didn't have Gaim installed. Also, I'm disappointed that CeruleanStudios would program Trillian to use profile folders within the installation folder itself instead of my specific user profile folder.
Any insight?
Edit:
Just noticed that there is an option to store your individual settings to your user profile, but it's not chosen by default.