cocoaforge

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.

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

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?

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.

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