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Authored by: peragrin on Mar 22, '05 01:01:52PM

Why?

I haven't adjusted my buddies in a long time. AIM, Yahoo, ICQ all store my contacts online. When i setup a new client, I simply log in and it retrieves those contacts.

I know Fire, Kopete(linux), gaim all support this, i haven't tried Ichat(needed more than just AIM support)but I would assume both programs you mentioned support this.



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Re: Why?
Authored by: robophilosopher on Mar 22, '05 03:24:44PM
As disclaimed in the hint, this is not useful as it stands. The reason I did it was that I had earlier used AIM's client, which grouped my buddies, then shifted to iChat, which ignored groups (though the groups still existed on the AIM buddy list server), then moved to Adium, which uses groups, but I wanted everyone in the same group.

The correct answer would be to drag all of the buddies into one group on Adium.

I was less than swift about this, didn't discover the correct answer until it was too late, and submit these scripts as nothing more than a few demonstrations of how to interface AppleScript with Address Book and the AIM client. Maybe someone will find a good use for it.

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