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OK, this is a random question...

Is the only place Adium stores its information in the keychain? Can you have it store its pref info somewhere else? When I'm at school and I stop by the computer lab to use our shiny new dual G5s, I'd love to have Adium available. The only problem is that my info would be wiped everytime, so I was thinking I could run Adium from my USB key and somehow store my info there? Can I bind that instance of Adium to a keychain file?

Any thoughts?

I think this is a cool idea. Maybe some sort of AdiumExpress, which would store the Adium_Support folder either within the package itself or in the same directory as Adium. That way it could be used on a keychain or even in a .Mac (and then you could sync prefs and maybe even logs between a couple comps). Although I would expect cacheing to perhaps work a little differently.

AFAIK, not right now. It will look for prefs and stuff in ~/Library/Application Support even if it is on another drive.

some one out there i dont know who but there was something i saw a while back how a person used their ipod and got the preferences to just go to the ipod... dont know what they said to do... but i cant find it now that i want to do it

Quit Adium

First, put your ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0 directory to the root of your iPod. Then, erase the original directory

Make a soft link:
ln -s /Volumes/iPod name/Adium 2.0/ ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0

Now, start up Adium, and that's it!

That will work on one system, but it's not a full solution, since you'll have to make that link on every machine that you want to run Adium on. The ideal iPod/flash drive Adium would have to be some kind of wrapper program that made that soft-link for you before launching the latest version of Adium, which you would keep on the Volume with the special Adium-to-go launcher.

good idea, except I can't program that…

Yeah, I can't program that either. Can we muck around with the files in the package to point to another location for the login/personal data?

We are currently discussing the possibility of implementing this for .80.

That is absolutely beyond awesomeness!

A patch that does it is available at the patches section from adium's project page. If you know what are you doing, you can apply it to the source and then add to Adium.app/Contents/Info.plist the path to your prefs folder with the key "Preference Folder Location".

Hmm... didn't know that. I have 2 midterms starting in half an hour, so I'll have to try that out later tonight. Thanks for the info.

actually you don't have to. it is already in the latest svn
(thanks again evands for correcting the mistakes i did!)

ofri wrote:actually you don't have to. it is already in the latest svn
(thanks again evands for correcting the mistakes i did!)

opensource++

Is it enabled by default? How do we use it?

Thanks for any help

download and compile the latest svn.
now open the file "Info.plist" (which is inside Adium.app/Contents) with Property List Editor and add a new string child with the name "Preference Folder Location". Now change it's value to the path where you want your preferences folder to be (something like "/Volumes/My iPod/Adium X Prefs").
Relaunch adium for it to take effect.

Ofri

Thanks!

Compiling as we speak...

Compilign rocks

The SVN is really coming along! Good job devs!

Failure. Total failure. I've been completely unable to compile any SVN builds for the past ~2 weeks or so. I get tons of errors. This is even after clearing my SVN folder and starting from scratch, etc. Missing file links are the most common culprit, but I've had all sorts of trouble. This is especially strange since I had no trouble whatsoever before then... Dunno... Maybe it's not meant to be.

Try Deployment-Debug Build Style.

It seems the most reliable for me anyways…