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I feel really silly asking for a feature, but I searched the forums and AdiumXtras to no avail.

I use both OS X and Windows, and I use Gaim on Windows. My issue is that contacts in Adium use Address book names (which I love) but this does not use the Alias feature.

What I am looking for is some way to synchronize Address Book names with their Alias so that I can use Gaim on Windows with my contacts' real names rather than their screen names. I forget what people's screen names are, and the Alias attribute seems like the perfect solution for this.

Maybe this shouldn't be a feature in Adium, but does anyone know how I might go about doing this? Manually applying the names to Alias might be a bit too tedious, and that won't help when I add contacts. Perhaps even an Applescript I could run regularly to copy Address Book names to the Alias field would solve this for me.

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

that's a good idea!

Take a look at the adium script suit. Maybe try something like (It's been a long time since i've written an apple script... )

I think that's been discussed before..

ofri wrote:Take a look at the adium script suit.

How do I do that?

Third wrote:

ofri wrote:Take a look at the adium script suit.

How do I do that?

Simply drag adium on script editor :-P

ofri wrote:Simply drag adium on script editor :-P

Not that I know much about AppleScript, but I just tried that and it didn't work, instead it inserted the path the Adium into the Script Editor window.

To answer my own question:

Open Script Editor, then choose File > Open Dictionary...
Choose Adium, and then you're off!

I'll mess about with this and see what I can come up with. If anyone with any, you know, experience, or someone that actually knows what they are doing wants to tackle this...

Maybe you should contact <a href="http://aurelio.net/bin/as/adiumbook/">Adium Book</a> developer.
He has a lot of experience in this kind of suff, and maybe he would like to add that into his app.

Here is the response I got from Aurélio Jargas, author of AdiumBook. His solution is exactly what I wanted! Neat.

I understand your needs and the solution is simple:

1) Set up Adium to show the Address Book's full names or nicknames on

Preferences > Advanced > Address Book

I'm sure you already have it right.

2) Log in into all your Adium accounts.

3) Paste this script into Script Editor and run:

tell application "Adium"
repeat with thisContact in every contact
tell thisContact
set display name to display name
end tell
end repeat
end tell


Explanation:

It is a loop in all your Adium contacts and for each, it sets the alias
(display name) to the current displayed name (display name). No, it's
not a typo, both names are the same

Nice.
Aurelio Rulz