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<title>Chatty Help</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
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<div id="backlink"><a href="help.html">Back to main help page</a></div>
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<h1><a name="top">Guide: Run more than one instance of Chatty</a></h1>
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<p>If you want to run Chatty more than once at the same time, you may need
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to know how it saves it's settings. By default the settings are saved
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in your user-directory in the subfolder <code>.chatty</code> (where it is
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exactly is system-dependant, enter <code>/dir</code> in Chatty to show it's location). When you run the program, it loads the settings
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and when you exit the program, it saves them, overwriting the file with
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no regard to possible changes (to the file) that may have occured in the meantime.</p>
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<p>This means that when you run more than one instance on the same computer,
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the last one you close always overwrites the settings.</p>
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<h2>Seperate settings</h2>
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<p>You can change the default settings directory by using the <code>-cd</code>
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commandline paramter, which changes the settings directory to the current
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working directory, meaning the settings are loaded and saved in the same
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location you specified as working directory.</p>
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<p>This means you can easily run more than one instance on the same computer
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with completely different settings, just by using that commandline parameter
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and specifying different working directories (e.g. in Windows in the shortcut
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settings).</p>
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<p>See also: <a href="help-guide_create_shortcut.html">Create Shortcut</a>.</p>
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<h2>Sharing login data</h2>
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<p>When you want to run several instances with different settings, but want
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to use the same account, you run into problems. Everytime you request login
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data (token), the old login is invalidated, so you have to share the login data
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you already have between different instances.</p>
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<p>You can do this by simply copying the <code>login</code> settings file
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which contains the login data. Make sure you closed the Chatty instance
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you requested the login data with at least once, so it's actually saved
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to the file.</p>
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<p>You could also try to play around with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link">symbolic links</a>
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to point to a shared <code>login</code> file.</p>
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<h2>Using Chatty on different computers</h2>
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<p>If you want to run Chatty on different computers with the same account,
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you run into the same problem as mentioned under <em>Sharing login data</em>:
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You can't have more than one access token with the same account for the same
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app at the same time.</p>
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<p>To use Chatty on more than one computer with the same account, you'll
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have to transfer the login data, either by copying the <code>login</code>
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file or by entering the access token manually
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(<code>/get token</code> displays the token,
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<code>/changetoken <token></code> changes it).</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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