Saving other people's display pictures

nanu · Post by **nanu** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:41 pm

I did a quick search and didn't turn up anything relevant, so here goes...

Does anyone know of an app that lets you save your contacts' display pictures?

I used MSN CE/DP Stealer when I was on windows, but I haven't been able to find a replacement under OS X.

The way I understand it, the program scanned a temporary directory where the display pictures were kept and then gave you the choice to save/copy them. Being fairly new to OS X and how Adium works, I don't know whether there is an equivalent directory.

I know that if you get info on a contact, you can then copy their picture and paste it into an image file, but I was wondering whether there's a more automated way to do this.

Any information would be much appreciated.

szilard · Post by **szilard** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:56 pm

All of your contacts display pictures are saved in ~/.gaim/icons (its an invisible folder so just type "open ~/.gaim/icons" in the Terminal) they're saved as PNGs but you have to add the file extension manually.

You can also just drag their display picture from the message window to the Desktop.

nanu · Post by **nanu** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:11 pm

Thanks for the feedback.

I tried to look in the folder you suggested but it appears I don't have a copy of it.

On a bit of investigation, it seems that some of the display pics were saved in:
~/Library/Caches/Adium/Default

Unfortunately there's only a few of them there.

I tried dragging the picture from the message window onto my desktop, and as well as creating the file there, a copy of it also appeared in the directory I mentioned above.

I suppose it's possible for me to drag the picture onto the desktop each time I want to save one, though my original idea was to find the folder where the pictures were stored, and use some applescript to monitor the folder, making a copy of any new pictures that appeared there.

I'm using 0.77 and it's only the Messenger display pics I'm interested in.

Anymore suggestions?

nanu · Post by **nanu** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:18 pm

Ohh,

Just found the extensionless icons in a libgaim folder (as you said):
~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/libgaim/icons/

Fantastic. Now to figure out under what circumstances they are created.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:38 pm

nanu wrote:Ohh,

Just found the extensionless icons in a libgaim folder (as you said):
~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/libgaim/icons/

Fantastic. Now to figure out under what circumstances they are created.

I think it saves them when you have a message window open with them.

It's the only time it's really needed.

ptsm · Post by **ptsm** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:13 pm

things have changed in 0.84

I can't find the pictures anymore...
Does someone know where they are now saved?

Post by **evands** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:43 pm

The gaim cache is no longer used, but the adium cache in ~/Library/Caches/Adium/DefaultUser still exists.

ptsm · Post by **ptsm** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:45 pm

thank you, but it seems that we can only find there the actual buddy icons, the older ones being replaced...
too bad

Post by **evands** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:43 am

ptsm wrote:thank you, but it seems that we can only find there the actual buddy icons, the older ones being replaced...
too bad

Huh?

ptsm · Post by **ptsm** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:13 am

sorry if I don't speak clearly English ^^

untill 0.84, we could find every icons, current icons but also old icons
but in the ~/Library/Caches/Adium/DefaultUser, there is only one icon for each contact
when they change their icons, the ones in ~/Library/Caches/Adium/DefaultUser are replaced...

Post by **evands** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:48 am

Ah. That's one of several reasons we're not letting Gaim do its caching any more -- it's clearly a bug to leave behind the old pictures when they change. Sorry if you were using this bug to your advantage previously.