Old Status Message Appearing

spewingnonsense · Post by **spewingnonsense** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:54 pm

Hi guys,

I'm a relatively new Adium user and I love it, except for one problem. When I sign on, Adium automatically selects an old status message that I created in iChat. Obviously, I don't want this to happen, so how can I change it?

Just to go into the problem in greater detail: I used iChat with Chax installed during last summer when I created this message. The message itself was a red away message, but now when I sign on in Adium, it shows up as one of those green "available" custom messages. Any ideas?

Post by **evands** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:19 pm

Are you sure you're not still online with iChat, with it in that status?

spewingnonsense · Post by **spewingnonsense** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:43 pm

nope, iChat has been quit since I downloaded Adium

Post by **evands** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:53 pm

Quit.. but disconnected? iChat likes to stay connected in the background - just hitting quit doesn't change its connected status.

spewingnonsense · Post by **spewingnonsense** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:51 am

Yes, iChat's both quit and disconnected. Also, the particular message that keeps showing up has been deleted from my status menu for months.

spewingnonsense · Post by **spewingnonsense** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:25 pm

a little more information:

the status message in question only comes up when i first make a connection. If i switch from AirPort to LAN, it will also do it.

If I have an away message up and hit the "Return" button, then it simply goes back to whatever Available message was up before.

The problem is that I bring my computer around campus a lot, and Adium stays connected to the internet even in sleep mode, so whenever I move from one AirPort network to another, Adium reconnects and begins to broadcast that same old available message.

hollerz · Post by **hollerz** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:52 pm

spewingnonsense wrote:Adium stays connected to the internet even in sleep mode

Sorry to hijack, but how do you make it do that?

djbsquared · Post by **djbsquared** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:04 am

Adium does not do that. nothing does that. If the computer is sleeping you cannot be connected.

spewingnonsense · Post by **spewingnonsense** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:06 am

No, I'm certain that I was connected because I put my computer to sleep one day before I unplugged the LAN cord. After I unplugged it, it made the sound that I installed for sign-off and then it automatically signed onto AirPort.

While it was still asleep, I went to my roommate's computer to check it out, and I was indeed still online. However, I just tried it again, and although i was still listed as online, i did not receive any of the messages. My guess is that it is just some sort of glitch in the way adium handles AirPort connections.

Anyway, I ended up just trashing all of the plists for both iChat and Adium and now I've restarted and it's fine. No more random status messages.

spewingnonsense · Post by **spewingnonsense** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:32 am

shit. I trashed the plists and everything and the first time I signed on, the message didn't appear, but now it's back to appearing. Not sure what that means, but i do know that trashing the preferences did nothing for me.