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Olivier
Asked: 2010-10-24 10:10:11 +0800 CST

Where are all my Empathy settings stored?

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I would like to know where Empathy stores all my information, so as to be able to back it up and re-use on a different Ubuntu machine.

So far I have found only the conversation logs in ~/.local/share/Empathy

Any idea where the rest is (account information, buddies, favorite rooms, etc?)

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2 Answers

  1. From the Empathy FAQ:

    Where does Empathy save files (accounts, logs, configuration)?

    • Accounts settings are saved in ~/.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg (except passwords which are stored in gnome-keyring).
    • New logs (since Empathy 2.31.4) are saved in ~/.local/share/TpLogger/logs
    • Old logs are saved in ~/.local/share/Empathy/logs/
    • Empathy configuration is stored in DConf and ~/.config/Empathy/
    • Avatars are cached in ~/.cache/telepathy/avatars/

    Meta-contacts are stored in the file:

    ~/.local/share/folks/relationships.ini
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  2. I could have sworn they were moved to somewhere in ~/.local, but it looks like accounts are still stored in ~/.mission-control. If you also want your saved passwords for accounts, you'll need to copy your GNOME keyring as well, which is in ~/.gnome2/keyrings.

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