I have been effected by this bug for a long time. In the end, I
resorted to using dropbox, which works reasonably well (with no web
access or course). Recently, dropbox access has been blocked at work,
prompting me to look at this again.
I tried most of the things mentioned above, to no avail.
I can confirm this in maverick as well, with stock empathy using gchat
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