[Adium-devl] Fwd: [Adium-feedback] Help! Changes made in AIM not reflected in Adium

[Augie Fackler]

On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> A question for those of you who know more about OSCAR than me…
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>> Subject: 	[Adium-feedback] Help! Changes made in AIM not reflected  
>> in Adium
>> Date: 	July 26, 2007 14:50:07
>> To: 	  feedback at adiumx.com
>>
>> Now that I'm back on my MAC and using Adium, I see that the  
>> changes I made to my buddy list on AIM have not been made to my  
>> Adium buddy list.  I still see the screen names of the people I  
>> had deleted signing on and off.
>
> Is this possible for any other reason than the [I presume official]  
> AIM not really deleting the contacts? I thought OSCAR services use  
> a server-side contact list; am I wrong? Is the CL stored locally,  
> with the client simply subscribing by username to each contact's  
> status?

OSCAR uses a serverside buddy list - but there appear to be code  
paths in Adium where we make our own changes to things without DTRT  
on the server. I haven't been able to reproduce them consistently  
enough to ever find them.


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