Adium upgrade problems...

ucfalmi · Post by **ucfalmi** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:34 pm

Hi -

I'm running an Intel iMac (Tiger 10.4.10), and the account I wanna use is MSN. Adium was working great until I upgraded to the newest version, 1.1.4.

Now all my prefs are reset and I can't re-add my account (or any accounts for that matter). All options are greyed out.

Following the FAQs I renamed the .plist file and the prefs directory. Didn't work. Then I built a new test user, and tried to add accounts using that. Didn't work.

Not sure what to do now. I don't have any Xtras or anything, so I'm confused about why this great app has stopped working! Any ideas?

This is how it looks trying to add an account:

ucfalmi · Post by **ucfalmi** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:36 pm

http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?t=15517

Same symptoms as this guy but his fix doesn't work for me...

Post by **evands** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:27 pm

Tell us about what is different on your system from a Mac OSX X 10.4.10 system straight from Apple. Have you installed or modified any programs which aren't pure drag-and-drop installation, particularly via the command line? Have you reformatted your hard drive and selected unusual options?

ucfalmi · Post by **ucfalmi** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:06 pm

That's the funny thing. Apart from a hosts file to kill web advertising it's stock. I run BootCamp with Win XP (rarely used). I have all the Apple patches, Sophos Antivirus etc. Although I run Little Snitch I have allowed all comms from Adium, and I've tried turning off all my firewalls and so on, both locally and on my router. No change.

PS > Just downloaded M$oft official product (yuk) and it connects fine (as can I from my Fedora Linux box on the same network) so it's not a connectivity issue.

ucfalmi · Post by **ucfalmi** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:26 pm

Just to show that it's a single installation problem, this is a screencap from my other machine, a Powerbook. Same wireless network, same patched OS, same pack of applications. Only difference is the version of Adium. Any ideas?

Post by **zac** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:40 pm

The dialog in your original screenshot suggests to me that Adium is having trouble loading the preferences nib files from disk.

Is Adium running from a disk image?

ucfalmi · Post by **ucfalmi** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:52 am

Nope, Adium running as a normal install in the Apps directory, with all the normal pref files in the normal places. Problem persisted when I deleted the pref files and restarted Adium to recreate them. Might rebuild permissions on the drive and see if that helps?

ucfalmi · Post by **ucfalmi** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:25 am

Darn I'm good.

Repairing drive permissions resolved my issue.