more than 1 adium runing

hrmzaqa · Post by **hrmzaqa** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:17 am

Hi,
i am new in the mac world, and i used miranda on PC. I had 2 mirandas running at the same time... 1st for me, 2nd for my girlfriend...

Can i run more than 1 adium at the same time?

I know i can conect to more icq accounts but if u have 80 contact each it's bit mess in contactlist if u have all contacts in one window.

thx

Hrmzaqa

LuxuryChair · Post by **LuxuryChair** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:10 am

There was a thread about this a while ago, try searching for it. (I did just briefly and couldn't find it) but I think they talked about it and it is possible, but they will have the same preferences.

djmori · Post by **djmori** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:00 am

AFAIK, this is not possible...
if you want to have 2 simultaneous adium's running, you should use multipe users on your mac....

In the beta, devs implemented something you may be interested; Is called "guest account", and allows a account to be added temporarly (it will dissapear when you quit adium). Anyway, the contacts will appear in the same contact list.

LuxuryChair · Post by **LuxuryChair** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:38 am

Nah, thats not exactly what he's looking for. It's like he wants to have two separate contact lists on screen, some names would be on both, some would be specific to just one, perhaps even skinned differently with two different message windows.

I can see some applications for running two adium's at once, but in the long run it causes a lot of glitchy behavior and preference overlaps prevent some off the interesting aspects of it from being useful. It's reccomended that you turn on groups and separate the contacts out into three groups, one thats all your contacts, one that contains overlap, and one that contains all of hers and that way you can close and open diffferent groups to sort the contacts - if thats the issue at hand.

I know what you want, but I it's not easily done and even when you succeed in doing it, its generally not worth the effort because of the unpredictable behavior that it causes. You may want to look at running official client as an alternative to a second Adium (i know, its a sorry comparison to adium, but take what you can get, if its that important)

Post by **evands** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:57 pm

You can avoid the preference churn by holding Option while starting Adium... bit of a hidden feature, and it's not officially supported, but it's used for development purposes and might be useful for yours.

yelly · Post by **yelly** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:03 pm

you could give portable adium a try.