[KrazyEvilGoat]

I started iChat... buddy list is empty. I figure it must be iChat acting stupid. I open up Adium.. and my buddy list there is gone as well.


Wtf has happened?? Any way to recover it?

[yukon]

it was a bug in adium. it's fixed.

[KrazyEvilGoat]

So how do I fix this little miracle of Adium's? I updated to 0.62 and my list remains gone.

[Chris Grande]

Try using the real AIM client, if you log in and get a message that your buddy list is unavailable then it will come back, this sometimes happens and iChat doesn't display that message from the AIM network only the real client does. This happened to me and my Buddy List came back the next day.

[KrazyEvilGoat]

Tried that, got no message.

I am muchos grande pissed.

[yukon]

adiumx is beta. this happens.

if you took a look at their site, you'd see-
"A very small number of users have reported a nasty bug where their AIM serverside list was partially deleted. We have found the source of the bug and fixed it for Adium X 0.62 (available within 24 hours of this post).

For users who were affected, I've written a small program which will use Adium X's preference files (which are independent of the serverside list though not sufficient to fully reconstruct it) to create an AIM .blt file suitable for importing via the official AIM client (File->Import while signed on). The .blt file (AIMContacts.blt, created on your desktop) contains all buddies which have ever been on an AIM account's buddy list in Adium X; groups are not included, as Adium does not store that information locally, so they are all listed in the "Buddies" group. Hopefully this will help anyone who was unfortunate enough to run into this problem. We're sorry for any inconvenience it caused

"