Adium 1.0.1 weirdness

visionik · Post by **visionik** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:03 pm

Something seems very wrong with Adium 1.0.1 and the chat windows.

Whenever I am chatting with people, I get these messages that start with:

<msnobj Creater .....

in my chat window. I know that these are MSN protocol objects. The thing is, they are showing up in chat sessions on AOL, Yahoo, etc. For example, this is a chat on AOL (the ___ was edited to keep my MSN chat name private)

10:53 Tuesday, February 20, 2007
10:53
<msnobj Creator="visionik@__________.com" Size="2876" Type="3" Location="TFR2C2.tmp" Friendly="AAA=" SHA1D="mZYSzl5sPOIT7YWpN8ySIaghAD
test

Anyone have any idea what's going on here?

drmoque · Post by **drmoque** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:19 pm

Not sure this is the same problem, but you might double check your display name in Preferences then Personal.

I use to get this type of error with MSN in version 0.89 occasionally (requiring a quick edit of my display name to fix it). However this was supposed to be fixed in 1.0 and I have not had it happen yet under 1.0.

Of course if it is showing up in the body of the chat text rather than the display name then my suggestion is probably moot.

balla · Post by **balla** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:17 pm

nono. the user name thing isn't moot. i just updated to 1.0 and then to 1.0.1... suddenly i'm not my usual nick. i'm chatting under my lil brothers nick? the same thing has happened to me at work except i'm chatting under the name of my system there... i guess it's time to figure it out and fix it. very aggrevating.

update:
guess ill just delete all adium and try for a reinstall.

update:
so i deleted all related system files to adium and thank god i still have an older version to install. i am running adium 0.73 and everything looks great. i'm very reluctant to go ahead back to 1.0.1... maybe i will before i get the preferrences reconnected...

for those who are searching for the similar issue:
wrong nick. incorrect nick. nick changed on me. this isn't my user name. what the hell. wrong name. incorrect name.... etc... hope this helps

aptenergy · Post by **aptenergy** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:09 am

Does "all system files related to Adium" mean that you also deleted/renamed the Home > Library > Application Support > Adium 2.0 folder?

Post by **evands** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:22 am

balla wrote:nono. the user name thing isn't moot. i just updated to 1.0 and then to 1.0.1... suddenly i'm not my usual nick. i'm chatting under my lil brothers nick? the same thing has happened to me at work except i'm chatting under the name of my system there... i guess it's time to figure it out and fix it. very aggrevating.

update:
guess ill just delete all adium and try for a reinstall.

update:
so i deleted all related system files to adium and thank god i still have an older version to install. i am running adium 0.73 and everything looks great. i'm very reluctant to go ahead back to 1.0.1... maybe i will before i get the preferrences reconnected...

for those who are searching for the similar issue:
wrong nick. incorrect nick. nick changed on me. this isn't my user name. what the hell. wrong name. incorrect name.... etc... hope this helps

After a fresh install -- following the troubleshooting tips -- your MSN account shows your little brother's nickname? And you can't just change it to what you want?

balla · Post by **balla** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:32 am

i already tshooted. it wasn't helpful.
also no. aim account. i havent tried my other accounts yet. i just want my aim user name to not be wrong on the top of the list and in the chat window.

Post by **evands** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:36 am

It sounds like your Address Book "Me" card is set to your brother, and you're not setting anything in the Personal preferences or by double clicking the name in the contact list to tell Adium you want it to display something else. No?

balla · Post by **balla** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:42 am

aptenergy wrote:Does "all system files related to Adium" mean that you also deleted/renamed the Home > Library > Application Support > Adium 2.0 folder?

well i did try that initially. it wasn't helpful. rename adium 2.0 that is. i tried the whole tshooting suggestive and it didn’t work. i deleted all adium system files and tried to leave the extra's like the dock icons and the scripts but the fresh re-install deleted them. i should have thought about renaming adium 2.0 then. but to answer your question i ended up just deleting everything and starting from the beginning.

what is interesting was .73 worked fine but then i thought 'what the heck, i'll upgrade to adium 1.0.1 again and see what happens.' i did and my aim user name comes up incorrect on the top of the contact list and in my chat window again. looks like i just can't use 1.0.1 .

also i run the most up to date OS for a G4 laptop.

is there anywhere i can dl 1.0 or anything after .73 and before 1.0.1?

balla · Post by **balla** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:45 am

evands wrote:It sounds like your Address Book "Me" card is set to your brother, and you're not setting anything in the Personal preferences or by double clicking the name in the contact list to tell Adium you want it to display something else. No?

hmm address book card... let me try that ...

update: evands you are smarter than i am. i didn't realize adium had anything to do with my addy book. it was set to my little brother. although it's odd because it was fine clear up till the 1.0.1 update. do you think it was always the little brother as my "me" card or that it mysteriously changed? thank you and scratch the downloads for anything between .73 and 1.0 i guess.

Post by **evands** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:09 am

Adium 0.73 was released in December of 2004. (Happy new year) x 3. I believe we had no automatic address book integration at that point.

Again, you can easily override the value retrieved from your address book within Adium. I imagine your address book has been like that since whenever it was set like that - more than that, I couldn't say