How to Send an AIM Buddy List to Another Account
The AIM chat network saves a list of your contacts to a centralized server, making it available no matter what location you log in from. However, if you create a different account and log in with it, your buddy list will be empty. Fortunately, AIM's messaging client allows you to save your old account's buddy list to a file and import it to the new one.
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Instructions
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Launch the AIM chat client and log in to your original account.
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Click on the "Options" or "Menu" button, found at the top of the window to the right of your account name. The name of the button depends on the version of AIM you are using.
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Hover your mouse over the "AIM" menu entry and select "Save Buddy List."
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Use the check boxes to select which buddy groups you want to export and click "Save."
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Navigate to the location where you want to save the buddy list file and click "Save" again. Select a memorable location, such as your desktop.
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Click on the "Options" or "Menu" button and select "Sign Out" to sign out of your original account.
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Log in to your second AIM account.
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Click on the "Options" or "Menu" button, hover over the "AIM" menu entry and select "Load Buddy List."
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Navigate to the location where you saved the buddy list file, click once on it to select it and click the "Open" button. Use the use the check boxes to select which buddy groups you want to import; an additional check box labeled "Replace my existing Buddy List with the one I am loading" allows you to choose whether to replace the new account's buddy list entirely or simply add the old account's buddies to the new account's list.
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Click "Load."
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