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On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 12:01 PM, Maia Gemmill wrote:
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> My AIM buddy list is complete chaos.
>
> Since Fire does not allow you to update the server buddy list, I have
> been
> using the AIM client to add people to my list. However, when I log back
> onto
> Fire, they appear as part of a new, different category, called AIM
> Server
> Buddylist. This is confusing, because it doesn't respect my groupings.
Yes, we understand that, but it probably won't change.
> Manually moving buddy names around in in the setup lists tab results in
> duplicate listing for some buddies, and then the next time I open Fire,
> it
> resets the active version of those buddies back to the AIM list instead
> of
> where I wanted them (the duplicates show up in the setup lists tab,
> where I
> tried to move them to).
The easiest way to do this is to open the buddy inspector window (double
click in the setup tab) and then select a new group for the buddy from
the group popup.
> The first time I used Fire, I used the AIM client to
> export a list, and then imported it into Fire, and that did just fine
> with
> my groups, so I decided to try that again. Well, it did cause *some* of
> the
> newly added buddies to show up in the right place, but not all of them,
> and
> the wrong ones are again all duplicated. ARGH!
>
Import and export are experiencing bit rot. No one has touched that
code in a LONG time and it was only guaranteed to work with far older
versions of AIM than current.
Eric
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a to-be-fixed bug that y'all are
> already aware of? This is something I've been aware of for a while, but
> this
> is my first attempt to really resolve it; I just downloaded and
> compiled the
> latest source this morning.
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