Pidgin (2.10.7) Chatlogs folder not foud

[Frank Schima]

On May 5, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On May 5, 2013, at 14:34, Frank Schima wrote:
>> On May 5, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Poulpette Delamare wrote:
>>> Le 04/05/2013 21:15, Frank Schima a écrit :
>>>> On May 4, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 4, 2013, at 06:25, Poulpette Delamare wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> So if I wasn’t able to find the logs, that was because the option for searching invisible files and directories was probably disabled? I’ll try what you told me to do. Thanks for the information!
>> 
>> Correct. The default in Spotlight is visible files only. 
> 
> Even when I tell Spotlight to ignore file visibility, it doesn't show me the .purple folder when I search for "name:purple". Is this actually working for you?

I played around with it for a while. It does appear to be buggy and does not reliably work. I tried rebuilding the Spotlight index with Onyx and had some success. I tried prefixing with and without the ".". I was sometimes able to find invisible folders or files, but never files inside invisible folders. Maybe this is why they don't advertise this! :)


Cheers!
Frank