Buddy List Lost!?

pythagorashigh · Post by **pythagorashigh** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 1:36 am

Is anyone having serious problems with AIM today? I am using AIM 4.8.2790 with AIM+ 2.21 and first, I rebooted my computer and when I signed back on, my buddy list was gone. Then I finally restored to an old back up I had. So now I started adding names my backup didn't have. Then came the bigger problem. As I would add a name, when I switched back to the Online view, the new buddies I just added disappeared! I would go back to the Setup and the names would not be in the list. Anyone else having problems? Anyone know what is going on? Please reply ASAP!

fuuucckkers · Post by **fuuucckkers** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 6:50 am

Sometime early afternoon and into the evening / night, AOL was having problems with their servers. Not only did it happen to you, it happened to me and a lot of my friends as well. When you recieve the error of your buddy list not loading but it's not lost.. don't panic. Do exactly as the error states -- Try Again Later. There is no need to load a previous version as you did. The buddy lists are stored on the AOL servers, once they fix the problem... your problems will be fixed as well

Dice599 · Post by **Dice599** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 8:40 am

Yea, a lot of my friends had that problem last night...luckily I didn't. But as of this morning I think everythings back to normal.

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 10:17 am

I had that problem with my main screen name last night. It kind of suck that I could not use my normal screen name but I found out that if I switch temporale over to my very old sn TJH119 it normal can get it buddy list and since it a complete dupicat of my Timelessblur one it really easy for me to copy stuff (and right now i keep it very up to date after what happen to my TImelessblurr screen name because i lost a few screen names that i have trouble putting back onto my buddy list

pythagorashigh · Post by **pythagorashigh** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 12:21 pm

I got my buddy list back, also, this morning.. but did anyone else have the problem where they couldn't even add names to their list? It was the wierdest thing. I would add a name in List Setup view then switch back to Online view and I could actually see the group decrease in size by one number as it deleted the name I just added.

Post by **Big-O Mark** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:33 am

Silly AIM servers spazzing out again ... I'm glad everything is back to normal for everyone. At least nobody tried to blame AIM+ this time around, usually that's where the fingers get pointed first when something starts to go screwy!

Those who have been around for awhile may remember this fun AIM spaz:

http://discuss.big-o-software.com/viewtopic.php?t=942

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