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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Weird; I think I've installed it to Win7 x64 using the installer (pidgin-otr-4.0.0-1.exe) several times. Maybe a recentish Windows patch changed something?</font></div>

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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Did you try running it as Admin? Don't remember if that's how I've done it or not. </font></div>

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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">-- Bits</font></div>

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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b>"countrygeek-at-Safe-mail.net |otr/Example Allow|" <<a href="mailto:fnfkm2kj7t@sneakemail.com">fnfkm2kj7t@sneakemail.com</a>> writes:</b></font></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Hello,</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">When using the latest Pidgin 2.10.8 on Windows 7 x64 and the latest OTR Win32 installer for pidgin-otr 4.0.0-1, the installation fails with unable to find plugin folder, permission errors, etc. </font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I was able to reproduce on 3 separate computers. The only work around being using the zip file which currently is missing from your website as a download option. I got lucky and found it via a search:</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><a href="https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/binaries/windows/pidgin-otr-4.0.0-1.zip" target="_blank">https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/binaries/windows/pidgin-otr-4.0.0-1.zip</a></font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Then manually copying the plugin to the plugins directory worked.</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I'd recommend updating the installer and providing the zip as an alternative download option on this page: <a href="https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/#downloads" target="_blank">https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/#downloads</a></font></span></div>

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