Resetting Adium

koopd · Post by **koopd** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:19 pm

Hi All, I foolishly tried to organise my accounts into seperate groups in my contact list but now I want to completely reset adium as everytime I delete everything with adium in its name on my computer it still loads my messed up groups, anyone know how to reset the damn thing?

Cheers

Tipo 61 · Post by **Tipo 61** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:22 pm

Is it an AIM account? If it is, I think that AIM stores the groups on the server, so you may need to reorganize your groups in iChat or something.

koopd · Post by **koopd** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:27 pm

I had it set up with two AIM accounts and two MSN accounts, some users duplicated across the accoutnts.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:29 pm

Delete ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0

That will delete everything related to Adium except for window positions, and therefore you will lose everything

koopd · Post by **koopd** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:34 pm

Yep allready tried that one!

I open Adium, add one msn account and my contact list is still showing a group for another account (which isn't even the one I added)

Frustrating!

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Just found out by looking in my official msn client that all the groups are messed up on the msn server, damnit, adium has really screwed up my msn accounts now, i'm missing tons of contacts!!

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:23 am

Adium stores all of its contact list information (who's in what groups, for example) on the servers for each service -- so if something is wrong in that department, it's because it's that way on the servers. You'll have to move the contacts around by hand.

koopd · Post by **koopd** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:37 am

Yep I know that now thanks anyway. Why is there no multiprotocol message client that organises its contact list into account sub areas? Is that not a logical thing to do? I have tried Fire, Proteus, Adium... none of them do that.

Post by **evands** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:05 pm

koopd wrote:Yep I know that now thanks anyway. Why is there no multiprotocol message client that organises its contact list into account sub areas? Is that not a logical thing to do? I have tried Fire, Proteus, Adium... none of them do that.

No, it's not a particularly logical thing to do, really. Adium's design philosophy is that you shouldn't have to -care- which account you're on, which protocol you're on, etc.