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I have a Jabber account configured in Messages. When other people on the server change their buddy icons, the changes are pushed to my machine. I want to override their icons and force Messages to display an icon for them that I select.

From the buddy list, right-clicking on a contact brings up the context menu option "Show Contact Card". This launches Contacts. But I have a custom image set for them and Messages is not displaying it.

I recall iChat having an option to specify using a custom image rather than the pushed image, but I can't find anything here.

This is for Messages version 7.0.1 (3314) on OS X 10.8.2 (12C60).

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Suggest you say what version of OS X (I.e. not just 10.8, but 10.8.2, or whatever) and Messages you're using. If it's obvious now, it may not be 2 or 3 years from now after OS 10.9.. 10.10 (?) etc. are out in the wild. – gosmond Feb 21 at 2:56

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