online contacts appear to be offline

leh25 · Post by **leh25** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:58 pm

A good half my contacts appear greyed out, or "offline," even though these people are online, and can contact me. Any idea of how to fix this?

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:07 pm

Do they have themselves set to invisible?

leh25 · Post by **leh25** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:33 pm

ok - so I found that if I delete the contact from my list, and then add them again, they are asked to 'accept' or 'deny' - and when they 'accept,' they become visible.

the weird thing is that these people were added to my list in the first place because they added me, and *I* was asked to 'accept' or 'deny' and I accepted. but for some reason they remained 'invisible' to me.

so - acceptable work-around found. but kind of annoying nonetheless.

michael · Post by **michael** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:35 am

Had the same problem myself a while ago, using the same solution. I *think* it's caused by adding the same contact more than once, the only assumption as to what happens is that adium creates some kind of borked meta contact and displays them offline. Or possibly two online= one off, do they cancel each other out

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