Some MSN contacts are invisible but really online.

[saylo]

Since the 1.4 update there are a few of my MSN contacts that I have not seen online (and I don't appear as online in their msn-programmes either).

I have not blocked them. I double checked when I noticed they did not show up, but, they are not blocked. They have not blocked me either.

The one thing I notice that differs them from my other contacts is that they don't have hotmail addresses. For an example, one of the missing people has *@live.se and another has *@spray.se.

So, how do I get them back?

[H!T]

Ive had issues before where users would ocasioinallly and seemingly randomly appear offline when they are on or i would appear offline when not. Also i cant see a user as online unless i add them to my contacts (which isnt a huge problem since i dont often get messages from people i havent added).

[saylo]

Hmm, ok. How did you solve that?

For me it is a kind of a problem, since I can not communicate with these friends through adium.

And, to sum it up.

They are in my contact list, I am in their contact list. None of us has blocked or banned the other. They look like they are offline at all times, even when I know for sure that they are online. And, on their side, it looks like I am offline too.
The ones I have noticed that this happens with, are people who don't have hotmail addresses for their msn account.

[Bug]

I'm having the same problem. I've deleted the contact and readded them, and it shows that they sign online, but once I log offline and log back in, or if they log offline and log back on, their status goes back to being offline again. It has been doing this for a couple of my contacts and it's really inconvenient. I haven't found a way to fix it yet either.

[thraxisp]

I reported this problem over a year ago in the betas. The bug is in the libpurple library used for connecting to IM hosts, so the devs here closed it without explanation.

[saylo]

I reported this problem over a year ago in the betas. The bug is in the libpurple library used for connecting to IM hosts, so the devs here closed it without explanation.

I looked, and found your thread in the beta forum.
http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=21449

[saylo]

Seriosly, does no one know what to do about this?

[fagkitty]

I have the same problem since... months ago. I tried to deal with it but jeez, I'm sick of that.
I can see those contacts when I sign in from Windows but not in Mac...

[saylo]

Ok.
And my computer is a mac. So is my parents computer, but now when I think of it, ithas been a while since I used adium on the computer there. That means it has an earlier version of adium...

Hmm. Can I downgrade adium to an older version somehow? My buddies disappeared in the last big update.

[Robby]

Make sure you haven't accidentally blocked people. Check Adium - Privacy Settings.

[fagkitty]

Yeah, it shows the people who should be blocked.
But still, the people who shouldn't be blocked, aren't showed in the contact list.

I tried downgrading to an earlier Adium version... it was the same.

[saylo]

Thanks Robby, but that was one of the first things I checked when I noticed people were missing. I have two blocked contacts, and those are not the ones missing, just like fagkitty said.

Oh, so downgrading does not work? Too bad.

[dundalk03]

I am also experiencing this issue.. it's happened several times.
I switched from amsn to Adium, and all new contacts I have added to adium appear offline when they are really online. I can't message them online I start a 'multiuser chat' - and if the chat is idle for too long, i have to reopen it to get the conversation going again.

MAAAAAJOOORRRRRR problem !!!!!

[lemming]

Same bug here... can't see online budy after add.

Solution: open Microsoft Messenger and login with your account. It will show a confirmation to add the contact. Add and it will be ok.

[saylo]

I downloaded microsoft messenger for mac, installed it, logged on and added the missing people, and when I started adium again, one of the missing ones was visible and online for the first time in months. Yay!

Thank you lemming!