I don’t see how the script could possibly run into a infinite loop since all loops in the script are “repeat with …” and thus would eventually end.

I admit script is not very efficient (mea culpa). The script loops through every single entry in the address book for each jabber contacts and in my case it took 30 seconds to go through only 7 jabber contacts with around 100 entries in my Address Book (2.2Ghz MBP).

An indication that the script is working would be that some of your Address Book entries should be modified already by the script.

One way to solve your issue would be to optimize the code and I may do that if I have time. And another solution would be a script that would simply loop through your Address Book and add an Jabber IM Handle of the proper format to every one who has an MSN IM Handle (basically my script without the iChat part).

Without Wax

Billy

I’m trying out your script because I’ve just set up MSN with Jabber and I’m also too lazy to choose cards for all my contacts….

I’m using a different jabber server which is fine but all I did was modify your script to go from:

if name of this_buddy ends with “@msn” then

TO:

if name of this_buddy ends with “@msn.netlab.cz”

What’s happening is that the script appears to be going in an infinite loop counting my friends over and over again. I ran it twice and both times it got up to 2 hours.

any ideas on what could be wrong? (ichat works fine btw just the name thing is a bit annoying).

I’m on Leopard, Intel 2.1 ghz MB

Thanks!

Firas

Regardless, the Merge command IS pretty cool, thanks for pointing it out, I hadn’t noticed it yet (probably because I still use Firefox).