Pidgin (2.10.7) Chatlogs folder not foud

[Frank Schima]

On May 4, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On May 4, 2013, at 06:25, Poulpette Delamare wrote:
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>> Well… well well well. Yes, now that you said that, I figure out how stupid I’ve been.
>> I’ve only been using Mac OS X for a couple of days now and still don’t understand everything (how folders are stored, etc.). On Linux, yes, I knew that Pidgin logs are in "~/.purple" which is really easy to find (Ctrl+H in the user directory to see hidden files and folders and here we go… which… doesn’t work on Mac OS), but I just couldn’t find anything on Mac OS X (I used Spotlight to make several researches). I should have tried to look for the same path, first, but I just didn’t think about it.
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> Spotlight does not show all files. It only shows files Apple thinks normal users want to see. Apple does not think normal users want to see hidden files, system files, etc. For that reason, I seldom use Spotlight; I usually use "locate" in the terminal.
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> If you want the Finder to show you hidden files (as I do), you can enable that capability using a hidden Finder setting (a setting Apple created but did not expose in the OS X GUI because they didn't think normal users wanted to do that). I use TinkerTool to alter those hidden settings.

This is no longer true in Mountain Lion. Apple has exposed searching all files in Spotlight. In particular, you can search for "visible or invisible" files now as an option. Plus under "other…" you can add pretty much anything including system files. I don't know why they never advertised this as a feature in ML. 


Cheers!
Frank