Prevent MacDive from picking buddies from Mac Addressbook

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Prevent MacDive from picking buddies from Mac Addressbook

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It looks like MacDive uses the Mac Addressbook as a source of potential buddies. Is it possible to prevent that?

I'd like to only show those that I've input into MacDive.
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Not currently, but I could look at adding a preference to disable that for you. Should be a quick change.
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This is done and will be in the next update. Email me if you'd like a beta version to try out.
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Sure, that would be cool. I would still be able to update to the latest release version after that, right?
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Of course!

As discussed I will get this to you tonight to try.
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Re: Prevent MacDive from picking buddies from Mac Addressboo

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@henrik

you can just disable the access for macdive in the preferences/safety/contacts settings (Mac OS 10.9)
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europaeer wrote:@henrik

you can just disable the access for macdive in the preferences/safety/contacts settings (Mac OS 10.9)
Nice, thanks!
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Re: Prevent MacDive from picking buddies from Mac Addressboo

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I'll leave the preference in which I think is a "more respectful" way of achieving the same thing, but, that's a cool tip :)
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