Every time I close Pidgin I have to delete accounts.xml in order to make it sign in again without throwing an error and crashing. As I have next to no knowledge of this program's inner workings I have no idea what's causing the problem or where to begin fixing it.

The only other weird thing I can think of is that the only contact I have ever added via Pidgin instead of Microsoft's client appears to have vanished into the ether, but as I have no idea how this could possibly relate to accounts.xml I have no way of knowing whether it's related or not, other than my intuition telling me that it's a ridiculous idea, but with computers I can never know for sure. Also, I have all the extra protocols installed, so I don't know if it's them that's the problem.

If no one else here has any idea either, could I please have some information on how to do a clean reinstall of Pidgin, that is, how to completely wipe all traces of it and its extensions from my device, so I can start afresh.

Thanks.