Recently I had to re-install my Windows operating system on my lap. One of the many programs I had to re-install was the Pidgin IM chat client. I also use Dropbox for saving files/directories online. I have configured pidgin to store its .purple home directory within the “My Dropbox” from Dropbox, that way I can share the log files and pidgin settings across the multiple computers I use pidgin on.
So I create a directory in the following path, that will be home to pidgin configuration:
%MY_DROPBOX%\pidgin
And that folder I set as a user/environment variable, so
PURPLEHOME=%MY_DROPBOX%\pidgin
So when pidgin runs it will create a folder underneath, like so
%MY_DROPBOX%\pidgin\.purple
And underneath that folder you will have folders like
- certificates
- icons
- logs
- smileys
This information is also explained in the pidgin documentation here.