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Not an earthshattering request, but I was curious as to where my contacts' display pictures are cached. I know you can drag and drop display pics in several situations, but I am quite interested in digging up older display pictures (i.e. ones used before a person changed theirs).

Any pointing in the right direction would be much appreciated...

Hello,

I think it's what you're searching for:
Library>> Caches>> Adium>> Default
Pictures are in .png

Bye,

BLD

You won't find old pictures, though -- we don't clutter your HD with such data

Haha.. Why how thoughtful of you.

Thanks for the info..

biglittledragoon wrote:Hello,

I think it's what you're searching for:
Library>> Caches>> Adium>> Default
Pictures are in .png

Is that ~/Library/... or /Library/ ?

snarfer wrote:

biglittledragoon wrote:Hello,

I think it's what you're searching for:
Library>> Caches>> Adium>> Default
Pictures are in .png

Is that ~/Library/... or /Library/ ?

user

I believe that it's logical...

I was pulling your chain... I know it's in ~/Library (~/ is your current user's home folder.)

you can find a cache of all user display pics adium has ever come across by opening terminal and doing:

cd .gaim
cd icons
open .

then just add .jpg to any of the pics you want to open.

p.s. a quick way to add .jpg to all the icons is to go to library/scripts/finder scripts/ and open the script "add to file names". then make sure the window that has the icons is the active window, then run the script with .jpg entered as a suffix

Needed a little UNIX syntax love...

doesn't work (at least not for me)
There's no such folder.

but a simpeler way would be to do command-g (go command) and type the adress... then you have the nice window interface instead of textual.

twopeak wrote:doesn't work (at least not for me)
There's no such folder.

Same here. Doesn't work with the go command nor the terminal.

whoops, that icon cache folder is for Proteus. my bad

booyakasha wrote:whoops, that icon cache folder is for Proteus. my bad

And look how big it is!

I have a bit of an inverse request. I have a persistent problem with icons updating at very irregular intervals. How can I -completely- refresh the cache, and what files can I delete to 'start all over again' as it were. Thanks!!