#Adium

I reinstalled my Mountain Lion, and since then Adium keeps asking for passwords on every Adium restart/startup. Understandably, this is quite annoying.

I’ve tried the following:

• readd the accounts
• reinstall adium
• run keychain first aid
• check this
• reboot
• pray to the gods, old and new
• check console (which is spawning a thousand million errors about read access denied, but Google told me it's a known Mountain Lion bug)
• update to Mountain Lion 10.8.2

• Uninstall Adium completely (tada)
• install 10.8.2 (well, I happen to reboot just after uninstalling and reinstall Adium, so I'm unsure whether the first or 2nd point was most useful).

Downside: have to readd all accounts (Google 2-step verification fun, and time to delete those old accounts (xmpp/icq) where I forgot the passwords), and reset all your settings.

If you’re like me, and been unable to log in to your Facebook chat through Adium for months… This is the fix:

Basically, when adding your Facebook account, Adium opens some webpage asking you to login. I always logged in using my e-mail address (as… that was what the page was actually asking!).

I always managed to successfully login. Facebook then asked to identify my device (“Adium” or whatever).

However, here the problems started. Whenever I clicked save, I just ended up on the same page again, asking me to fill in my device name.