WTF is up with "orhpaned" contacts and having to keep readding people on Trillian?

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  • J$tyle$
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Apr 2003
    • 11500

    #1

    WTF is up with "orhpaned" contacts and having to keep readding people on Trillian?

    ICQ kept crashing and was a resource hog and that sucked balls so i switched to Trillian a month or so ago.

    I have to keep adding people over and over again, contacts randomly get "orphaned", and finding contacts in my list is often a pain in the ass or literally impossible.

    I have 732 contacts between ICQ and AOL IM ... what's the best solution to use these days that that runs more smoothly?

  • Jay_StandAhead
    Confirmed User
    • Jul 2002
    • 3103

    #2
    I had the same problem... ICQ has a 600 contacts limit. When I deleted a bunch and went under 600, it fixed the problem of having to re-add contacts all the time.

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    • Thee Johnclave
      The Billz Collectaz
      • Nov 2001
      • 632

      #3
      Dude....after nearly a year I had the same issue with Trillian and could not fix it for the life of me. Go checkout their support forumn and you'll find thread after thread with people looking for answers and finding none. I moved back to the newest ICQ and that had it's own problems. Now I'm running 2003b and it handles both ICQ and AIM.



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      • J$tyle$
        Too lazy to set a custom title
        • Apr 2003
        • 11500

        #4
        Arrrrrgggghhhh

        so my choice is delete contacts (which i do all the time anyway) or reinstall ICQ?

        THAT'S IT?

        Mutha fucka!

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        • MikeB
          Confirmed User
          • Feb 2002
          • 2012

          #5
          I have the same problem here. I cut down my list to below the critical mass level. Recently with new additions I went over the limit and now Trillian orphans contacts at will. Too bad it doesn't orphan the contacts more than X months old with no contact instead of bumping the people I talk to on a regular basis.

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          • jeffrey
            Confirmed User
            • Jul 2004
            • 1864

            #6
            Trallian Astra is supposted to fix alot of these little problems, I dont know when its out though.
            I found the Paid Pro version is more stable then the free one was, dont know if that had to do with something else on my comp though.
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            • CX*
              Confirmed User
              • Apr 2003
              • 147

              #7
              edit : I thought I had a fix, but I didn't.
              Last edited by CX*; 12-20-2006, 10:56 PM.

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              • JJSLIMM
                Confirmed User
                • Jan 2002
                • 1414

                #8
                Had the same issues..sucks! but started a couple new icq#'s to give me more than 600 contacts in ICQ...
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                • cess
                  Confirmed User
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 2921

                  #9
                  There's others like http://www.miranda-im.org/ . I keep thinking about switching but nothing is wrong with my trillian install so not much of a point in doing that right now.

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                  • AaronM
                    GFY Royality ;)
                    • Oct 2001
                    • 46917

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Jay[neX]
                    I had the same problem... ICQ has a 600 contacts limit. When I deleted a bunch and went under 600, it fixed the problem of having to re-add contacts all the time.

                    I had over 800 people in my contact list. Recently axed it down to 300ish. about 5 days ago I started getting orphans again.

                    Same result with basic and/or pro.

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                    • Sarah_Jayne
                      Now with more Jayne
                      • Dec 2002
                      • 40077

                      #11
                      are icq's history functions better these days? That is one of the main reasons for me using trillian

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                      • J$tyle$
                        Too lazy to set a custom title
                        • Apr 2003
                        • 11500

                        #12
                        Originally posted by JJSLIMM
                        Had the same issues..sucks! but started a couple new icq#'s to give me more than 600 contacts in ICQ...
                        LOL that's not the worst idea

                        I guess you just have to switch UIN's a few times per day?

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                        • OY
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                          • Oct 2002
                          • 5401

                          #13
                          I had the same problems until I turned OFF my local firewall (Norton) and that seemed to fix the problem.
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                          • J$tyle$
                            Too lazy to set a custom title
                            • Apr 2003
                            • 11500

                            #14
                            anyone else?

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                            • jmk
                              Confirmed User
                              • Sep 2002
                              • 5391

                              #15
                              I deleted a bunch of contacts and that helped

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                              • MaDalton
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                                • Feb 2004
                                • 39861

                                #16
                                i use trillian 0.74 with about 550 contacts - no problems. and since it's already 5 years old or so it doesn't use much resources
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