Adium contact list question

[bobbyboulders]

ok, so basically i want to be able to distinguish b/w aim, msn and gtalk within my adium contact list.

Currently all contacts are appearing under the group 'buddies', except for my msn account contacts, which are appearing under their own groups (friends/family).

Ideally i would like a group named 'aim' and a group named 'gtalk' (whatever) so i can clearly distinguish b/w the two....

 

[swiftaw]

You can create groups, by going to Contact->Add Group. You can move people to new groups by selecting their name in the buddy list and pressing Apple+I (Get Info) then assigning them to a different group

 

[72930]

You can create groups, by going to Contact->Add Group. You can move people to new groups by selecting their name in the buddy list and pressing Apple+I (Get Info) then assigning them to a different group

I think he wants to have his already-made groups such as 'friends' and 'family' still in contact, so your method does not work...all I can think of is calling people e.g. AIM:Jenny, MSN:John and so on, so you know which account they're from...

 

[devilot]

Ideally i would like a group named 'aim' and a group named 'gtalk' (whatever) so i can clearly distinguish b/w the two....

Have you tried Adium> Contact> Add Group... ?

Looks like this:



And make one that says AIM and one that says, whatever else, then just manually drag the contacts to the proper group?

Maybe someone else will have an easier way.



:edit: Way too slow. Stupid tabs.

 

[TheAnswer]

I think he wants to have his already-made groups such as 'friends' and 'family' still in contact, so your method does not work...all I can think of is calling people e.g. AIM:Jenny, MSN:John and so on, so you know which account they're from...

Another alternative would be to make the group names something like: Friends/AIM, Friends/Gtalk, Friends/MSN...etc.

 

[bobbyboulders]

Actually the contact>add group thing did work (Thanks guys..). Only drawback is, is that it's tedious work...ahh well at least its a solution

 

[apfhex]

Or you could make a custom List Layout with Service Icons turned on, so it shows next to each contact what service they're using.

I use groups myself. Tedious? How many contacts do you have?

 

[TheAnswer]

Or you could make a custom List Layout with Service Icons turned on, so it shows next to each contact what service they're using.

Gosh...I've had that turned off for so long I totally forgot about that as a possibility.

 

[bobbyboulders]

I use groups myself. Tedious? How many contacts do you have?

quite alot...extemely tedious if you have to do them one by one...

 

[TheAnswer]

quite alot...extemely tedious if you have to do them one by one...

Shift+click all the buddies you want to move at once, then +drag them into the group you want. That'll work a lot faster.

 

[bobbyboulders]

Shift+click all the buddies you want to move at once, then +drag them into the group you want. That'll work a lot faster.

awesome! thanks