Inadvertently removed "Recent Buddies" list

iChat has the option to organize buddies into groups for convenience. In addition to user-defined groups, iChat also has a "Recent Buddies" group in which it places recently contacted people for convenience. However, if users remove this group it may seem like they cannot get it back.

This group may get inadvertently deleted, and upon recreating it iCal may not seem to add recent buddies to the newly created one. The reason for this is that this group needs to be enabled in the iChat preferences. When this group is deleted, iChat disables the automatic addition of users to this group, so the simple fix is to re-enable it.

Fix: Enable the "Recent Buddies" option Go to the iChat preferences, and in the "Accounts" section, select the account being used from the list. Then in the "Account Information" tab at the bottom check the option to "Add new buddies I chat with to 'Recent Buddies'", and the group should appear again during the next chat session. Unfortunately the list will start fresh again, so previous "Recent Buddies" will no longer be there.

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