[X4U] iChat Buddy

Kirk McElhearn kirklists at wanadoo.fr
Mon Mar 21 06:55:21 PST 2005


On 3/21/05 3:37 PM, "Mark Des Cotes" <mark at astroprinting.com> wrote:

> How does the buddy list work? The reason I'm asking is that, on the
> weekend, a friend of mine installed AIM on his PeeCee and I added him
> to my buddy list at home. Today, at work, I launched iChat to add him
> to my buddy list here but his name is already there. How come? I use
> the same account (login) at home as I do at work but where exactly is
> the info for my buddy list stored so that it would automatically update
> my work computer? Is the info stored on the .mac server?

On the AIM server, actually. Which is a good thing, because you can use the
same buddy list on different computers, even different platforms.
 
 
Kirk
 
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