flatpak installation doesn't display old log files

[mohammadsamani]

I recently switched to flatpak. version 2.16
I copied all the log files from the old installation folder to /home/username/.var/app/io.github.Hexchat/config/hexchat/logs

Two problems:

1. When I open a dialog with a person I have talked to before, I don't see the old logs. The new text is, indeed, appended to the correct text file. I used to be able to see the old logs for that person, and I liked to be able to continue doing so. Is there a setting for that, that is accidentally turned off?
2. The "Open Data Folder" button under Preferences > Chatting > Logging tries to open the location in my browser (Firefox) rather than my file browser.

My operation system is Pop_OS.

$ uname --all
Linux pop-os 5.15.8-76051508-generic #202112141040~1639505278~21.10~0ede46a SMP Tue Dec 14 22:38:29 U x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[TingPing]

You are confusing two different things, logs and scrollback.

Scrollback, saved in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hexchat/scrollback is the recent chat history including all formatting.

Logs, saved in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hexchat/logs (by default but movable), are formatted for human reading, hexchat never opens or displays them.

[mohammadsamani]

Thank you! I didn't know those were separate.

Any idea why clicking "Open Data Folder" opens a web browser rather than a file browser application?

[TingPing]

Any idea why clicking "Open Data Folder" opens a web browser rather than a file browser application?

HexChat opens a file:// url with the default handler on the system I believe. Web browsers can handle file:// so you probably just need to set that back to your file manager.