can't split merged contacts

Gary King · Post by **Gary King** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:12 pm

I merged two contacts from different of my MSN accounts, and they cannot be separated. Yes, I checked Get Info.

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:21 pm

Select the contact in the contact list and Get Info on the contact. There should be a drawer that comes out of the side of the Get Info window. Under the list of email addresses for this contact is a minus sign which removes contacts from the meta contact. This doesnt delete the contact, just makes it its own contact.

Gary King · Post by **Gary King** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:35 am

m2e wrote:Select the contact in the contact list and Get Info on the contact. There should be a drawer that comes out of the side of the Get Info window. Under the list of email addresses for this contact is a minus sign which removes contacts from the meta contact. This doesnt delete the contact, just makes it its own contact.

As I said, no drawer in Get Info.

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:37 am

Are you sure its a metacontact?

Gary King · Post by **Gary King** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:45 am

m2e wrote:Are you sure its a metacontact?

I merged two contacts. Isn't that considered a metacontact?

No drawer.

LuxuryChair · Post by **LuxuryChair** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:07 am

I had a similar problem once. I closed the drawer by dragging it to the edge of the window and couldn't figure out how to get it back

Gary King · Post by **Gary King** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:11 am

LuxuryChair wrote:I had a similar problem once. I closed the drawer by dragging it to the edge of the window and couldn't figure out how to get it back

I didn't even close it. It was just like that.

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:18 am

Are you sure your not mixing a metacontact up with the same contact on two of your accounts?

Gary King · Post by **Gary King** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:22 am

m2e wrote:Are you sure your not mixing a metacontact up with the same contact on two of your accounts?

I had two contacts; same person, but in two of my MSN accounts. I place one on top of the other, Adium asks me if I want to merge them, so I do.

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:26 am

OK, that sounds like a metacontact. But because its the same address on two of your accounts theres no need to show the draw. I don't really know what to do in this case, sorry. You might want to muck around with the accounts tab in Get info and see if you can get the contact to be in different groups for different accounts.

Gary King · Post by **Gary King** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:37 am

m2e wrote:OK, that sounds like a metacontact. But because its the same address on two of your accounts theres no need to show the draw. I don't really know what to do in this case, sorry. You might want to muck around with the accounts tab in Get info and see if you can get the contact to be in different groups for different accounts.

I've already mucked around for quite a while, and from what I can conclude, it is a bug.

http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/3674

LuxuryChair · Post by **LuxuryChair** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:39 am

tried deleting it and re-adding it?

Gary King · Post by **Gary King** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:42 am

LuxuryChair wrote:tried deleting it and re-adding it?

Okay, but it's still a bug. I've filed it: http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/3674

LuxuryChair · Post by **LuxuryChair** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:54 am

Gary King wrote:
LuxuryChair wrote:tried deleting it and re-adding it?
Okay, but it's still a bug. I've filed it: http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/3674

of course. just offering a temporary fix until the developers implement a long term.

troplin · Post by **troplin** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:19 pm

maybe its a metacontact because you have both contacts in the same addressbook entry (in the program adressbook).
try to deactivate this option in the advanced->adressbook settings of the adium preferences.
I'm using the german version, so it could be that I didn't (re-)translate it correct...

Post by **evands** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:52 pm

We're talking about 2 accounts, 1 contact. That is, Bob has 2 AIM accounts, Bob1 and Bob2. He adds Jane to the contact lists of both. "Jane" is the contact in question.

There is no drawer because only one contact is involved. How can you separate a single contact? It's like splitting an atom...

Perhaps, though: Are you trying to put the contact on Bob1 into Group1 and Bob2 into Group2?

Gary King · Post by **Gary King** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:06 pm

evands wrote:We're talking about 2 accounts, 1 contact. That is, Bob has 2 AIM accounts, Bob1 and Bob2. He adds Jane to the contact lists of both. "Jane" is the contact in question.

There is no drawer because only one contact is involved. How can you separate a single contact? It's like splitting an atom...

Perhaps, though: Are you trying to put the contact on Bob1 into Group1 and Bob2 into Group2?

They were previously two separate contacts before I merged them, though, so technically, I'd like to undo what I've done.

Basically, what I really want to do is to reorder the contacts in the meta.