Where are my away message presets?

MacMom · Post by **MacMom** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:53 pm

When I moved stuff around trying to figure out why Adium is connecting so slowly, I seem to have lost my preset away messages. I haven't emptied the trash yet. Where do I find them? What's the folder or file called? Thanks in advance.

noleli · Post by **noleli** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:09 am

~/Library/Applications Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default User/Saved Status.plist

Also, I'm quite surprised that you couldn't find the one I referred to last night. It's in the Accounts folder of the Default User folder. There is a plist for every account you've ever created, each named by number.

MacMom · Post by **MacMom** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:02 am

Well, neither the Saved Status.plist in my current Default folder, nor the one in the Trash seemed to have my preset away messages, so I guess I have to recreate them.

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:25 am

Try Away Messages.plist.

I looked inside it and it's just a bunch of random characters but I guess that means something to Adium.

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:40 am

Look for the <key>Saved Status Array</key> in Saved Status.plist. The giant block of nastyness that follows is your saved away messages and states

MacMom · Post by **MacMom** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:19 am

They are just lost, I will just have to recreate my away messages. It's not as though I had that many of them, anyway.

And I also just uninstalled and reinstalled Adium.

Crazy, probably, but maybe it will help to start fresh. If something got corrupted, should be in the trash now.

I almost forgot to rescue my logs -I had to retrieve them from the trash.

Hope there's nothing else I forgot to rescue.

My only disappointment is that my longtime buddy icon got resized to miniscule and I can't seem to make it bigger again (part of the problem is that I have no idea how I got it bigger in the first place). So I switched to The Cheat.

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:00 am

You might be able to find the buddy icon in
~/Library/Caches/Adium

Not sure how long our caches stay around though

MacMom · Post by **MacMom** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:36 pm

Thanks.

I couldn't find the buddy icon in the caches, but I was able to resize it. I tried again to do it the way I remembered that I did it the last time and this time it worked.