Error message when moving contacts

[mipadi]

I've been using Adium's awesome buddy list organization features to organize my contacts. I was moving contacts around on my AIM and GTalk accounts today. Adium, by default, creates a group for GTalk buddies called simply "Buddies". I moved my GTalk contacts from that group to another group, then deleted the "Buddies" group (created automatically when I logged into GTalk). However, when I deleted the group—which was empty, because I had moved all my contacts out of it—I got a strange warning that said that the group and one buddy in the group could not be deleted because the account was not logged in. However, I was logged into both AIM and GTalk. When I quit Adium and logged back into both services, the contacts were in the groups I had moved them to. I wondered what exactly this error message meant, as it seems that the group was deleted, and the buddies were properly moved to new groups.

[evands]

Do you have any other messaging accounts at all which weren't logged in?

[mipadi]

I did--I was not logged in on my other AIM account (it's a tech support screenname I sometimes use at work) and my Bonjour account. But there were no screennames from those accounts in that buddy group...should that matter?

[evands]

It should matter.. my guess is that one or more names on that signed-off AIM account were actually in the default group (perhaps duplicatively in there -- both in there and in another group, serverside), and the cached libgaim buddy list file knew that. It's one of many oddities of working with a library which still, at heart, is designed for one program, Gaim, and being used in another -- different assumptions, different UIs.

It's not an answer, though I'm glad you brought it to our attention -- but I'm fairly confident that the warning message was harmless.

[mipadi]

I've logged onto the AIM account and the GTalk account with the official client, and nothing seems to be amiss.