I use Lotus Sametime 7.5 (and soon 7.5.1) for instant messaging at work. the memory usage is a bit tough to swallow but some of the integrated features more than make up for it.

One thing has bothered me. From the start, I tried to create some informative status messages so people could better decide how and when to reach me. I might include a different phone number when working from a remote location or I might indicate I was MBWT and would be back at a specific time. Most of these status messages were one-time deals. In a few cases they were never used (for example if I made a typo in the message).

Sametime keeps track of old status messages so you can reuse them. But what if you don’t plan to ever reuse a message ? How do you clean up that history - delete old or unused status messages ? You need to be willing to edit a couple of files. Here are the steps:

1. shut down the Sametime client
2. open Windows Explorer and browse to:
• C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\IBM\RPC\Sametime\.metadata\.plugins\
3. browse into: com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community.sametime\
4. edit the file: community-config.xml
5. delete the status messages you no longer need
6. save the file
7. browse up one level and then into: com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.imhub\
8. edit the file: buddylist.xml
9. delete the status messages you no longer need
10. save the file
11. restart the Sametime client

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