Thread: OS2008 Instant Messaging Upgrades
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paps is offline paps
2008-04-04 , 15:53
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#237
Originally Posted by paps View Post
alright I got the contacts to work again (not sure how or why) but now the new problem is once I add a yahoo account, the AIM field in the contact details section disappears and the icon becomes a yahoo icon. When I remove the yahoo account, the AIM icon appears next to a screename and if you go to add field, it's showing up, but if you add the yahoo account again, it disappears from the add field and gets labeled as a yahoo contact.

Not sure if this is a bug, but it might have something to do with the fact that my account name on aim and yahoo are exactly the same. Curious if this is also just my luck?
I'll just tack on another bug I'm noticing. Checking the contact details anyone with an AIM account is showing up with a Yahoo icon instead. If I click on a merged contact and select Chat, i get a list of all their accounts, but also many duplicates of their AIM account to choose from. If I scroll down to the bottom, I'll see the correct list with status icons next to them, so I know that's what I should choose. To add to this twist, if I go in and edit contact details and delete a blank field (Gizmo Phone or Link-local if the contact doesn't have one), the field will return after I close, but going back and retrying to chat with a merged contact doesn't show the duplicate fields anymore.

Fun stuff, anyone else dealing with this? I still think this may be related to the fact that both my yahoo and aim account share the exact same screename, but I doubt I'm the only one who uses the same name on multiple protocols.