A funny thing about winapp2

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Not me of course, the file.

I wrote a little extension to clean out Pidgin icons a while ago, just because they're junk (if anyone wants it, i'll put it at the end of this post)

I never run it though, as I believe it conflicts with pidgin while it runs, and i always have pidgin running.

AS it turns out,connecting to the Facebook IM with pidgin caches ALL your friends profile pictures. This was the result (I noticed an incredibly long time lapse whilst copying files from my now corrupt system :()

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g59/kens...pidginicons.png

heres the winapp2.ini extension by the way

[~Pidgin icons]LangSecRef=3022DetectFile=%ProgramFiles%\Pidgin\pidgin.exeDefault=TrueFileKey1=%UserProfile%\Application Data\.purple\icons

just something I noticed, thats /quite/ a lot of files, though they dont take up much room.

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That's a lot of friends you have winapp

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It caches all their pictures, so (and specifically with Facebook IM) if they change it, it saves another. Thus over an extended period of time, if you have 200 friends who change their default picture of buddy icon 5 times in the course of a month or two, you have 1000 files.

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yea I thought that might have been why, but inferring 8,000+ friends sounded like a better comment

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I only have around 1200 friends on facebook :( it'd be cool to have 8000 though! :)!

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only 1200, you not doing bad at all, Iv'e got a measly 136 of 'em.

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I've actually met people in real life /after/ I was friends with them on facebook. Go figure. Coincidentally, at that.

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I suppose that's my problem 98%/99% of the ones on my FB I have met, but most not for years, lol