How To: Change the authorized Twitter account in 0.5

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Mageuzi

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Oct 6, 2009, 8:20:25 AM10/6/09
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I just received the following question via Twitter:

"How to change twitter account in trowl ?"

Unfortunately it is not possible to do this through the interface at
the moment. This will be possible as part of the new multiple
accounts feature in 0.5.1, but it is a known flaw in 0.5.

You can, however, reset Trowl manually so that when you restart it, it
will prompt you again to authorize your account. Basically, you have
to either delete or modify your settings file.

Trowl's settings are stored at:
C:\Users\[Your Windows User Name]\AppData\Local\Trowl
There will be one or two folders in there -- find the one that
contains version 0.5.0.0.

In there, you will find the file user.config. This is where your
settings are stored. If you don't mind losing all your settings, you
can delete this file and you will be all set.

If you'd like to preserve your settings, then open the file in a text
editor like Notepad. Near the bottom, you will find a section that
looks like the following:

<setting name="oauth_token" serializeAs="String">
<value>165863sdfakfjeijfsalfmnsdjaifvgsfv/am/
sdf,sm.fgamkewfasd</value>
</setting>
<setting name="oauth_token_secret" serializeAs="String">

<value>fdsafdDSAEadkfadsFASDfsdaFsdFsadFSAJSfSAfKSdaFsdaFsdaFsdF</
value>
</setting>

Delete both the "oauth_token" setting and the "oauth_token_secret"
setting and save the file. When you restart Trowl, it will ask you to
authorize your account again.

If you have any questions or problems let me know.
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