10.13.05
How to prevent loosing your buddy list
Is surpising how many comments I get on my original post about how I lost my AIM buddy list. Unfortuantely, once its gone, its gone. The hopeful solution is that all your good friends will IM you again. If you do log all your conversations, it is possible to filter through your log files fetching out all the distinct buddies. The only guaranteed way is to actually backup your AIM buddy list. I believe its the “Save Buddy List” in the file menu. However, like all things in life precautions just take time and are a nuisance. Its far better to have some type of failsafe. Perhaps the AIM creators can have backup your buddy list automatically.
On the bright side, loosing my buddy list was actually kinda nice. It cleared up the clutter of names. Some of the people were old friends or acquatences that I did not talk to much anymore. With a clear buddy list I was able to “move on” so to speak. And now a days, sometimes I stay off AIM all together. IM is cool and convient, but sometimes it can feel like a chain that fixes me to the computer. Socializing with people via phone or in person is a far more humanly experience. Dont get me wrong, I still use AIM to kill some time at work, fill in idle periods on the computer, and to coordinate outings.
Tyrone said,
October 27, 2005 at 10:23 am
Yea yea yea…i know how to prevent from loosing my contacts, but the real question is Why or How did I lose my contacts/buddy list?
Reasons that I think or possibly know…
Update on AIM servers for some odd reason
Another user hacked into ur screen name and erased them
or your in someone else’s lol…
But i do have another comment to add:
The statement that the site admin posted on this is technically wrong…I have had my buddy list disappear around 3-4 years ago and for some odd reason, my buddy list came back, i honestly dont remember how long it was since then i received my contacts back..but im almost positive it was at least several weeks (2-4 weeks) if not, months…
sad to say….i lost my buddy list again and stuck in the same situation as most of you…if you find anything on this odd occurance, feel free to email me with advise or questions about this….ronedawg23t@yahoo.com
Jen said,
March 8, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Thank you for posting what happend to you. There is nothing on AIM.com to tell you what to do…..Thanks again
steve said,
February 20, 2008 at 9:00 pm
aim.com says to wait a few hours.