Contact list disappeared - offscreen?

mpemulis · Post by **mpemulis** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:57 am

OK. This is probably something stoopid but I've been banging my head against it. My contact list has disappeared. It's not there. Everything else seems to be working.

I'm wondering if somehow the list has rooted itself offscreen somewhere.

?

Any suggestions?

(And yes, I have tried command-/ , it doesn't help.)

Post by **evands** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:36 am

1) Before doing anything else, please backup your Window Positions.plist (in ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default User) -- not because it matters for you, but because it might help us figure out what happened in the first place

2) What's your contact list window style (Appearance prefs)? If you toggle it to/from Regular Window, does it help?

Post by **bgannin** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:50 pm

Have you made sure that the account(s) are actually online? I've found that my connecting sometimes hangs for a while, which results in the list not being visible (since its empty)

mpemulis · Post by **mpemulis** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:33 pm

evands wrote:1) Before doing anything else, please backup ...

Done. Can I safely delete this file and start from scratch?

evands wrote:2) What's your contact list window style (Appearance prefs)? If you toggle it to/from Regular Window, does it help?

The window style is Contact Bubbles To Fit. I also have it to auto resize in both directions. I've tried turning all that off and going to a regular window but it doesn't seem to matter. I also widened it to its maximum width but it doesn't matter.

This is version 0.89 BTW.

Thanks for the response.

mpemulis · Post by **mpemulis** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:34 pm

bgannin wrote:Have you made sure that the account(s) are actually online? I've found that my connecting sometimes hangs for a while, which results in the list not being visible (since its empty)

Yeah. In fact I was using adium all day yesterday in this mode, chatting with several people. Everything else seems to work fine....

Post by **evands** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:06 am

You can indeed safely delete it -- doing so should make your contact list appear in the default location on the main screen. Be sure to delete it while Adium isn't open...

mpemulis · Post by **mpemulis** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:37 am

OK. That looks to have fixed it. Although it took two tries - earlier today I moved the plist file to my desktop and then started adium. This didn't seem to make any difference.

Just now I deleted the file and that fixed it.

Dunno. That shouldn't matter.

Anyway, I'm back up and running. Thanks for the help and the great app.

articos · Post by **articos** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:31 am

hey, evan...I'm running into this too, now, on .89. It's still online, but the contact list totally disappears. deleted the windows.plist file, which fixed it, but it happened again.

-A

Rita · Post by **Rita** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:26 pm

Not sure if this is the same problem, but I do remember several of us having this issue a while back.

Basically, the contents of my buddy list disappear over night. The buddy list is still on screen and functioning, but when I wake up, no more contacts. If I restart Adium, it's fine. Not sure if this is AIM related or Adium related. Anyone else running into this? Solutions?

Perez · Post by **Perez** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:03 pm

Every now and then I accidentally hit cmd-/ , which hides it; could that be happening, or is this disappearing while you're gone? (I almost always leave an account connected, and don't have any window-disappearing.)

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:25 pm

Rita wrote:Not sure if this is the same problem, but I do remember several of us having this issue a while back.

Basically, the contents of my buddy list disappear over night. The buddy list is still on screen and functioning, but when I wake up, no more contacts. If I restart Adium, it's fine. Not sure if this is AIM related or Adium related. Anyone else running into this? Solutions?

This has happened to me before although not recently.

Rita · Post by **Rita** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:24 am

Perez wrote:Every now and then I accidentally hit cmd-/ , which hides it; could that be happening, or is this disappearing while you're gone? (I almost always leave an account connected, and don't have any window-disappearing.)

It only happens when I go to bed and thus am not on my computer for long periods. Seems to only be an issue over night.

match.wolf · Post by **match.wolf** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:15 pm

Rita wrote:It only happens when I go to bed and thus am not on my computer for long periods. Seems to only be an issue over night.

The same with me, I go to bed, next morning the contact list is gone. But it also happened some other time. Usually I'm gone away for some time, when I come back: no contac list.
Restarting Adium usually helps, but this shouldn't happen ...

Rita · Post by **Rita** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:09 pm

Hasn't happened recently. Maybe it was an issue on AIM's side?

mpemulis · Post by **mpemulis** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:18 pm

You know it's weird, but I hadn't had this problem since I posted about it originally. But ... late last week it happened again twice, right about the time this post got resurrected.

Maybe it does have something to do with AIM? Sounds kind of crazy though.