Since Empathy became the default IM app in Ubuntu 9.10, it has also replaced Pidgin as my default IM app. Empathy is simple to use and the version in Ubuntu 10.04 come with a nice interface. So even though Pidgin is functionally better, I have no compelling reasons to switch it back. There is one problem though. As I have several computers, both at home and office, I have no ways to access to the conversation logs if the conversation occurred over another computers. That means, if I am using the computer at home, I won’t be able to access the conversation logs which take place when I were using the office computer.
The solution to this is, of course, upload the logs to the cloud and sync it back to every computers you are using. Needless to say, Dropbox is the best for this.
Previously, we have mentioned the various uses of Dropbox and one of them is to sync your IM logs. What is not mentioned in that article is how to do it. In this article, I will show you how to get it done in Ubuntu.
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