Removing an ichat buddy

Hi

Highlight the buddy and goto "edit" in the menu bar and click on "delete".

Tony

My pleasure.

Thanks for the points.

Tony

For others.

This will not stop someone from calling you unless you have Allow Buddy List Only or have them in the Blocked list (both in iChat > Preferences > Accounts > Security tab)

Also you can delete multiple people by clicking on one then holding the Shift button and selecting more then the Delete key.



9:59 PM Wednesday; October 10, 2007

I cannot delete mine with that option - I tried the edit menu, I tried the remove buddy option from the Buddies menu. Neither are an option, they are grey.

Highlight the Buddy and use the Backspace key and confirm with the enter key.



7:32 PM Saturday; December 22, 2007

I have the same problem... Apparently, I cannot delete any buddies from my list... all of the options under 'edit' are grayed out... any thoughts? Could it be a setting somewhere that needs to be changed? I can't find one that, but I could just be missing it...

You did high-light(click on) your buddy first?.

I am having the same problem. "Remove buddy" is deactivated and greyed out. Highlighting the buddy and pressing the Delete key just gives an error chime. Dragging the buddy to the trash is ineffective. This problem occurs even with buddies who are not in my address book. I can't edit my buddy groups either. It seems like all buddy list management functions (besides adding) are being prevented by iChat.

Edit > Delete is also unavailable in my situation.

FYI:

I was able to perform all of the tasks (editing groups, removing buddies) that I can't do on my Leopard machine with an earlier version of ichat on my Panther machine at work.

Use the Backspace/delete key



9:07 PM Saturday; March 1, 2008

My problem is that I can click on either Edit>Delete or Buddies>Remove Buddy, then click delete, and it takes the buddy away, but then the buddy pops back up, flashes a few times, then is back to normal. So I can't delete them for more than a few seconds.

PS: This is on a brand new MacBook.

Then you have another AIM client or Computer using the same Screen name logged in.

Now this maybe a client that is not On-line but allows for Off line IMs and therefore does not Log Out when Quit.

This will re-establish what it thinks is the Buddy list and add back items you are deleting.

On this iChat you are using go to iChat menu > Preferences > Accounts and change the Allow Multiple Logins option to not allow it (You will have to log out first)
When You restart iChat you may get a message that the account is logged in somewhere else. Typing a 1 in reply to this text message will log out the other incident of being logged in.

Once you are only logged in once you will be able to delete a Buddy.



11:35 AM Sunday; March 2, 2008

I had this problem as well in Leopard. All options in the menu were always grayed out. Here is what I did.

Right click on the person you want to delete in your buddy list, then click show info or profile, then in the window that opens, click the address card tab, then click the little down arrow that is on the right of the bubble that has their screen name and select remove buddy from list.

I hope this works for others as well. I'll edit this post in an hour or so and add links to screen shots to help as well.

Message was edited by: CandTsmac