Christian, are you going to try 0.8b3 again? Mine did like yours - it worked, then started crashing. I went back to 0.77 and had the same, fixed it as above
Here is my story Installed 0.77 - fine Tried to move contacts to different groups - lost lots of contacts Added them manually again, sorted Upgraded to 0.8b3 - much better Next day 0.8b3 kept crashing on Adium starting up Downgraded to 0.77 Now it keeps crashing when i go into Preferences and click ...
ok so i added them all again manually, now those boxes are coming up again, saying that the contact is in the Individuals group, but not server ??? Anyway i put yes, so they dont get deleted. Thing is Individual group is not listed man this sucks
Contacts each get their own file in ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/ByObject/ for contact-specific preferences such as alias (although aliases may also come from the server or address book) I have the same issue, lots of contacts (MSN) have disappeared. They are listed in that...