In theory, as long as you copy over the entire folder, his preferences should be restored. It doesn't hurt removing the old ones from the ~/library/preferences folder, but I don't know if it's necessary. I've always just copied that entire Adium folder to application support to maintain my settings.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 1, 2012, at 1:28 AM, "Christopher-Mark gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Excellent deal. I will check that out. > > So I guess I just need to have him copy all that stuff back over to his user > library, then go in to the app's preferences, and remove all my accounts. > Right? > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Panarese" <jpanar...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:44 PM > Subject: Re: Where on earth does Adium put event preferences? > > > Yes, the user library. > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Email, j...@macfortheblind.com > Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:40 PM, "Christopher-Mark gilland" > <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks John. >> >> By ~/Library, I'm assuming that you're refering to the user library, not the >> system wide library. Right? >> >> Chris. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Panarese" <jpanar...@gmail.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:37 PM >> Subject: Re: Where on earth does Adium put event preferences? >> >> >> Look in the, ~/library/application support folder. There is a whole Adium >> folder where that is kept. >> >> >> Take Care >> >> John D. Panarese >> Director >> Mac for the Blind >> Tel, (631) 724-4479 >> Email, j...@macfortheblind.com >> Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com >> >> APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION >> >> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE >> >> MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT >> >> >> >> On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:09 PM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have a friend who just tried reformatting his hard drive, due to a system >>> crash. he needs to reinstall Adium, however the problem is, he is going to >>> then have to go back in reconfigure all of the spoken events that he >>> originally had set up. not that this is a problem per se, however it is a >>> major pain in the… Well… You get the idea… I was curious if there was a >>> file somewhere that I could send him of my preferences, which he didn't >>> could tweet accordingly to his likings. perhaps something in my user >>> library directory, or perhaps in the Macintosh HD library directory. I >>> remember very vaguely trying to copy the preferences P list file over. but >>> that did absolutely no good the one time I did so. that indeed did restore >>> my preferences, but it did not restore my accounts, nor did it restore my >>> preferences. I almost wonder if there is an ex ML file which is somehow >>> being Parcek which has the preferences for the events. does anyone have any >>> idea how we could make this easier on him? I hate him having to spend an >>> hour and a half just reconfiguring the D***thing! >>> >>> thank you much. 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