I would like to delete a barrage of Away messages from Pidgin. Due to the funky auto-save feature, I can't just delete the Away messages that I foolishly created. They are not listed under the Saved Away messages!

Supposedly I can edit the ~/.purple/status.xml file. Can someone please explain where to find this file on my N800 (OS2008), and how to edit it?

Thanks!

it's in your home directory (thus the tilde ~), in a hidden (thus the leading dot) directory called .purple.

the explicit/equivalent pathname on the N800 is /home/user/.purple/status.xml

Just open xterm and type:

Thank you both! I got a little closer. Unfortunately I'm really not familiar with the Terminal and how to use it. I typed the above code, but got stuck right there:



Do I have to become root before entering the code? I believe I have to use rootsh? I apologize for being such a n00b.

Thanks!

Alright, I thought it didn't work, but those pesky Away message are all gone. So it worked.

It surprised me that the file was simply removed once the code was entered. Just like that.

Thanks!

Yeah, rm doesn't return a message when it's deleted a file. If it says nothing, you can assume the file deleted fine or you would get an error message which rm does return when it couldn't delete a file.

If you want, you can use rm -v which at least returns the name of the file it's deleting.

You don't need use rootsh (i.e become root) when deleting files that you own.

Thanks! I will have to learn about the Terminal, because I get the feeling I will need to use it on occasion.