One more difficulty ..

[Angel]

Hello again Eion,
Now that I have the program running again, things 
in menus are greyed out, and buddies show as 
offline, even when we are chatting.  I cannot set 
the font face, foreground color, background 
color, etc. The default formatting under 
Preferences:Conversations shows the look I want, 
but it doesn't show in the chat window,.

And how do I get my buddies to show up as online? 
Do I have to re-establish their connection to me?

Thank you, yet again, for all your help.
Angel
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At 11:59 PM 3/29/2019, you wrote:
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>Hi Eion,
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>FIXED!!!!!  OMG!!  YAY!!!
>[]
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>Thank you, THANK you, THANK YOU!
>Now, how to get my "Buddies" back and configured 
>with alert pounces and such. Fortunately, I 
>wrote it all down the last time something like this happened!
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>Have a great weekend!!!
>Angel
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>At 10:39 PM 3/29/2019, you wrote:
>>(please include support@ in any replies)
>>To switch to the new protocol you'll need to 
>>edit the account and change from ICQ to ICQ (WIM).
>>If you're still seeing the BOS error, then 
>>you're using the old protocol stillÂ
>>Cheers,
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>>On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 12:14, Angel 
>><<mailto:cmmcangel at gmail.com>cmmcangel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hi Eion,
>>I did get the message last year and did move to 
>>the new one. It was working fine until I closed ICQ yesterday.
>>Thank you for the link.  Here's what I did:
>>Closed Pidgin completely
>>Downloaded these two files to folder on desktop
>><https://eion.robbmob.com/libicyque.dll>libicyque.dll
>><https://eion.robbmob.com/libjson-glib-1.0.dll>libjson-glib-1.0.dll
>>Opened Windows Explorer
>>Draged libicyque.dll into C:\Program Files (x86)\Pidgin\plugins\ folder
>>Draged libjson-glib-1.0.dll  to C:\Program 
>>Files (x86)\Pidgin\ (not plugins!) folder
>>Restarted Pidgin
>>No joy. Still getting "unable to connect to BOS server. Connection refused"
>>Starting "Panic Mode"!
>>
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>>At 02:08 PM 3/29/2019, you wrote:
>>>Hi there,
>>>You probably got a message from the ICQ 
>>>servers near the end of last year that said 
>>>they were shutting down the old service and 
>>>that you'd need to move to their new 
>>>one?  There's a new plugin that connects to 
>>>the new protocol and replaces the existing one in Pidgin:
>>><https://github.com/EionRobb/icyque>https://github.com/EionRobb/icyque
>>>Cheers,
>>>Eion
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>>      On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 08:47, Angel 
>> <<mailto:cmmcangel at gmail.com>cmmcangel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hi!
>>Looked at all the old stuff, and this has 
>>happened before, but nothing new came up. Is there a new upgrade for this??
>>Pidgin was working fine until today when the 
>>ICQ program, resident and running on the task 
>>bar, got closed accidentally. Ok, I closed it. 
>>Forgot it had to be on. So, I get the error 
>>message: Unable to connect to BOS server: Connection refused.
>>Tried *everything* (reloading Pidgin, deleting 
>>Pidgin, reinstalling newest version, 
>>re-launching ICQ, playing with the settings in 
>>Pidgin, deleting account and making new -w/same settings) and ... Nada.
>>Under Modify Account, the server listed is 
>><http://login.icq.com>login.icq.com,  I do not 
>>see it in the list of SSL servers:
>><http://api.icq.net>api.icq.net,
>><http://api.login.icq.net>api.login.icq.net
>><http://api.oscar.aol.com>api.oscar.aol.com
>><http://api.screenname.aol.com>api.screenname.aol.com
>><http://bos.oscar.aol.com>bos.oscar.aol.com
>><http://edit.yahoo.com>edit.yahoo.com
>><http://www.yahoo.com/>www.yahoo.com
>>and couldn't find info online to add it for myself.
>>So.   H E L P !!
>>Thank you, one and all.
>>Angel
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