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Transfer .Mac iChat account buddy lists to AIM accounts
Authored by: ghay on Mon, Sep 24 2007 at 11:09AM PDT

Aren't your .Mac and AIM buddies stored on the server side of things? everytime i log into something like meebo all my buddies show up automatically.

Transfer .Mac iChat account buddy lists to AIM accounts
Authored by: robg on Fri, Oct 19 2007 at 10:35AM PDT

Sorry, I should have been clearer: the buddies are there, but they all show with their screen names and/or .Mac IDs, not their real names as they do on my Mac (as it gets that data from Address Book).

By exporting and importing, I saw real names on the iPhone, too.

-rob.