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noreturn · Post by **noreturn** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:03 pm

Not an earthshattering request, but I was curious as to where my contacts' display pictures are cached. I know you can drag and drop display pics in several situations, but I am quite interested in digging up older display pictures (i.e. ones used before a person changed theirs).

Any pointing in the right direction would be much appreciated...

biglittledragoon · Post by **biglittledragoon** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:42 pm

Hello,

I think it's what you're searching for:

Library>> Caches>> Adium>> Default
Pictures are in .png

Bye,

BLD

Post by **evands** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:50 pm

You won't find old pictures, though -- we don't clutter your HD with such data

noreturn · Post by **noreturn** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:00 am

Haha.. Why how thoughtful of you.

Thanks for the info..

snarfer · Post by **snarfer** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:54 pm

biglittledragoon wrote:Hello,

I think it's what you're searching for:
Library>> Caches>> Adium>> Default
Pictures are in .png

Is that ~/Library/... or /Library/ ?

biglittledragoon · Post by **biglittledragoon** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:11 pm

snarfer wrote:
biglittledragoon wrote:Hello,

I think it's what you're searching for:
Library>> Caches>> Adium>> Default
Pictures are in .png
Is that ~/Library/... or /Library/ ?

user

I believe that it's logical...

snarfer · Post by **snarfer** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:23 pm

I was pulling your chain... I know it's in ~/Library (~/ is your current user's home folder.)

booyakasha · Post by **booyakasha** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:00 am

you can find a cache of all user display pics adium has ever come across by opening terminal and doing:

cd .gaim
cd icons
open .

then just add .jpg to any of the pics you want to open.

p.s. a quick way to add .jpg to all the icons is to go to library/scripts/finder scripts/ and open the script "add to file names". then make sure the window that has the icons is the active window, then run the script with .jpg entered as a suffix

snarfer · Post by **snarfer** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:20 pm

Code: Select all

cd ~/.gaim
cd ~/.gaim/icons/
open

Needed a little UNIX syntax love...

twopeak · Post by **twopeak** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:09 pm

doesn't work (at least not for me)
There's no such folder.

but a simpeler way would be to do command-g (go command) and type the adress... then you have the nice window interface instead of textual.

Githon · Post by **Githon** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:16 am

twopeak wrote:doesn't work (at least not for me)
There's no such folder.

Same here. Doesn't work with the go command nor the terminal.

booyakasha · Post by **booyakasha** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:45 pm

whoops, that icon cache folder is for Proteus. my bad

Post by **evands** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:06 pm

booyakasha wrote:whoops, that icon cache folder is for Proteus. my bad

And look how big it is!

alexius · Post by **alexius** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:43 pm

I have a bit of an inverse request. I have a persistent problem with icons updating at very irregular intervals. How can I -completely- refresh the cache, and what files can I delete to 'start all over again' as it were. Thanks!!

cocoaforge

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