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Adium's ability to search IM logs is comically bad. It's so bad, I usually resort to grep. Which is almost enough to drive me back to iChat. But I like having OTR (crypto) built in, and iChat's multi-protocol UI is stupid (I want one list of contacts, not one list per server).

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[User Picture]From: [info]cfs_calif
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 3:08 AM (UTC)

Spotlight to the rescue

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There is a spotlight indexer for the chat logs, but you may need to tweak the Spotlight importer util if you been upgrading for a while:

mdimport -r /Applications/Adium.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/AdiumSpotlightImporter.mdimporter

The bug also states that you may have to search using Command-Option-Space because the menubar item doesn't display results found in ~/Library

cfs


Edited at 2008-04-22 03:08 am (UTC)
[User Picture]From: [info]cfs_calif
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 4:16 AM (UTC)

Re: Spotlight to the rescue

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I take it all back. Spotlight sucks. Long live grep(1)!

cfs

[User Picture]From: [info]bergernon
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 3:18 AM (UTC)

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http://unsanity.com/ctm

You need that. :)

It's Chat Transcript Manager, and it works with Adium and with iChat. It's freakin' awesome.
From: [info]pandakiss
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 3:19 AM (UTC)

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Completely understood.
[User Picture]From: [info]artkiver
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 4:12 AM (UTC)

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bitlbee srsly, ftw.

OTR has been added in a branch and is being merged in for the next release too which means finally a multi-IM client which can be access from a command line app if you want (or whatever you want, because it's implemented as an irc daemon, you can even using MS Comic chat and jerk city it up).
[User Picture]From: [info]artkiver
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 4:14 AM (UTC)

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Oh one last thing, I love how adium prefers OTR by default _and_ logging, which basically puts everything on the record; but I'll avoid my full bashing of otr another time.
[User Picture]From: [info]poige
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 4:16 AM (UTC)

> (I want one list of contacts, not one list per server).

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And I rather dislike one list approach. :)
[User Picture]From: [info]houdini_cs
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 4:20 AM (UTC)

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I know I sound like a fanboy, but: Jabber? I've got a jabber server running that has AIM/ICQ/MSN/etc transports, and iChat gives me all of them in one window.

That's another thing to maintain if you run your own, but there's got to be one out there that doesn't suck.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 4:32 AM (UTC)

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Having to run my own chat server is bullshit. Having to run my own proxy server is bullshit.

This should all be obvious.
[User Picture]From: [info]houdini_cs
Mon, 28-Apr-2008 12:04 AM (UTC)

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It is. I wasn't suggesting running one, I was suggesting using one.

If you'd like, I'll even give you an account on my Jabber server. It's not a commercial service, and I'm not going to give you an SLA, but it works pretty well for the few users I have.
[User Picture]From: [info]zakj
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 5:05 AM (UTC)

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Chax provides a unified contact list for iChat, but no OTR.
[User Picture]From: [info]ultranurd
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 2:47 PM (UTC)

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Ah, good to know - I figured Chax went poof with the addition of built-in tabbing in iChat 4 for 10.5.
[User Picture]From: [info]pikuorguk
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 11:09 AM (UTC)

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You know what's really irritating?

People who change their screen name (or whatever it is) to be some "whitty" comment. Thanks, it really helps keep me on my toes, guessing who you all are. This is the main reason I'm not on MSN.
[User Picture]From: [info]fantasygoat
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 2:02 PM (UTC)

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Adium allows aliases. I just use everyone's real name as an alias so I never see their stupid screen names.
[User Picture]From: [info]pikuorguk
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 2:23 PM (UTC)

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Adium's not too bad, apart from the strange squawks it makes. I'd use it but iChat is good enough - GMail archives all my chats, so there's no need to go grepping through text.
From: [info]evands
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 7:14 PM (UTC)

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Preferences->Events. You can turn off or change the sounds :)

The duck sounds haven't been the default in a while, in any case - I agree they were obnoxious.
[User Picture]From: [info]toastednut
Wed, 23-Apr-2008 10:39 AM (UTC)

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seriously. mine have been all NES sounds for a while now. plus, what could be sexier than a completely transparent bg for the contact list + tabbed chat + native otr? well, i guess a lot but i don't want any replies about that.
[User Picture]From: [info]defenestr8r
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 4:23 PM (UTC)

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the few times i have had to search logs, what i was looking for has immediately appeared. maybe "the" is significant like myspace which i also have more success with searching than you do. perhaps you are too smart for search functions.
From: [info]evands
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 7:08 PM (UTC)

please report your problem!

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Adium uses the same search technology as Spotlight, SearchKit. Its searching should be phenomenal, not comically bad. Please report the problem you have at trac.adiumx.com so we can fix it.

-Evan, Adium lead developer
[User Picture]From: [info]alchemist
Tue, 22-Apr-2008 9:15 PM (UTC)

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I feel your pain.

My only beef with adium (other than that) is the lack of an IRC connector. Adium uses libpurple, it's basically a port of pidgin, so where the devil is IRC? Oh sure, they include the MySpace plugin, which I'm sure is much more useful....
[User Picture]From: [info]endquote
Wed, 23-Apr-2008 6:02 AM (UTC)

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I agree that iChat's multi-protocol UI is stupid, but if you do use it, there's Logorrhea for dealing with its log files.

I'm just waiting for a port of Digsby for Mac. I've been working a lot in Windows lately, using that for IM. It's really nice.
[User Picture]From: [info]telecart
Wed, 23-Apr-2008 7:32 PM (UTC)

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I think Trillian had an OTR plugin. I wonder if < a href="http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/">Trillian Astra</a> (which has a mac version in alpha) will too (and not suck otherwise).



BTW, I will be in San Francisco this June, I hope I will have a chance to visit your establishment.