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Adium Chat Log Sync++ With Dropbox

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Summary

If you have trouble getting your Adium chat logs synchronized between multiple computers, I can help.

 

Never forget again.

If you're using multiple computers (i.e. one at home, one at work) and find yourself using the same instant messaging accounts, its helpful to synchronize the chat logs on those accounts so you can always recall what you or someone else said.

 

Secret Sauce

I love using Dropbox for this. If you've googled around for how to set this up, you've probably found articles which describe the process of setting up Adium to use Dropbox for log sync. Unfortunately for me, this process only works on the first machine. As you can imagine, there's no point in synchronizing chat logs between a single machine... Not once have I been able to get it to work the way the linked blog post suggests.

 

Step-by-Step

To get it to work, I use a different process:

  1. In Finder, make a folder in your dropbox folder where you want the logs to be stored. I use
    "/home/%USERNAME%/Dropbox/Adium Logs"
    where %USERNAME% should be replaced by your username.
  2. Right click (or Cmd+LeftClick) your folder and choose "Make Alias"
  3. Hit Enter and rename your newly created alias "Logs" (case matters here).
  4. Open a new Finder window and go to:
    "/home/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/"
  5. If you already have Adium chat logs, rename the "Logs" folder in the "Default" folder to something like "Logs.backup".
  6. Drag your alias, "Logs" , to the Default folder and overwrite the old Logs folder.
  7. If you needed step #5, then open your backup folder and select all the inner folders and drag them to the alias from Step 6.
  8. Quit and restart Adium.

It takes a little longer than the other article.. but its worked every time for me. YMMV.

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