One day I was using Adium X (a popular AIM client for OS X) when my buddy list suddenly disappeared, and Adium then updated the AIM server with my empty buddy list ... and then my buddy list was gone.
Luckily I had all my buddies' names, or the ones I actually talk to, in Adium's log folders. I then made a folder named logs on my Desktop, and put all of my buddies' log folders into it. I then wrote a simple script named output, which looked like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
@buddydump = split("n", `ls -1 logs/`);
foreach $buddy (@buddydumparray) { print $buddy; }
I then copied its output, downloaded and installed the official AIM for OS X client, and finally went to Safari and entered this URL:
aim:addbuddy?listofscreennames=[pasted the copied output]
Although this may seem really obvious, it took me a while to figure it out, and it was a pain trying to do it in just Adium alone (buddy by buddy).
Here's a full script if you don't want to follow the process above. Good luck getting your buddies back!
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