[OTR-users] otr key problem

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:10:47AM +0200, tirali at dmreklam.com wrote:
> i am using gaim v1.5.0 and the latest otr release .. the problem i am
> facing is that i was able to use otr from a different machine and now
> i cannot generate keys.. it says generating ... and then says OK. but
> there are no Keys. when i attempt to make a private conversation it
> automatically tries to generate a key says OK and then with every
> message it again tries to generate a key and says OK but actually
> fails. Is there a workaround for this ? i uninstalled otr and
> reinstalled it but no luck.

It sounds like you don't have the right permissions to save the private
keys file for some reason.

What OS is this?  If it's *nix, what does "ls -al ~/.gaim" say?
If it's Windows, I'm not sure what the equivalent thing is.

   - Ian