I did not have a lock in my ~/.purple folder, but it was owned by root user.
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K 2009-06-06 00:02 .purple (the folder here only had plugins folder with a single file) For that reason, the application did not seem to be able to write in that folder. By changing this configuration, as manishmahabir specified earlier, with the following command, I could solve this issue: sudo chown user:user ~/.purple/ (where user is your current username, or the username logged in) The result is: drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4.0K 2009-06-06 00:02 .purple Once I started the application again, the files were successfully saved (my personal accounts, etc). -- Account settings not saved https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331863 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
