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iChat Don't Work

TEG

TEG

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Original poster
Jan 21, 2002
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Langley, Washington
I'm on day 3 of Panther, and just realized something... iChat (AV) no longer works on my computer.

I've tried throwing away preferences, repairing permissions, nothing is helping.

It did work on Friday, but hasn't since.

Any ideas??

TEG
 
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froehle

macrumors newbie
Jul 17, 2003
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Minneapolis, MN
Me too.

Some people on Apple's forms have said that removing all non-standard characters from your own name/login name worked, but that doesn't apply to me.

What's worked for me now was killing the pref files, then not logging into anything (so it doesn't crash when it first starts). Then disabling all sounds in the Preference panel. Then go turn back on AIM/.Mac and Rendezvous.

I'm not sure why this solves it. At least it hasn't crashed in the past hour or so.
 
iJon

iJon

macrumors 604
Feb 7, 2002
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try extracting the package off the panther disc and reinstall.

iJon
 
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froehle

macrumors newbie
Jul 17, 2003
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Minneapolis, MN
Originally posted by iJon
try extracting the package off the panther disc and reinstall.

iJon
Click to expand...

(a) there is no iChat.pkg on the Panther disks.

(b) I've already done a fresh install of Panther again, and this doesn't solve the problem.
 
TEG

TEG

macrumors 604
Original poster
Jan 21, 2002
6,621
169
Langley, Washington
I got it to work by removing everything with iChat in the name and trashing them, then loging out and opeining iChat first after loging in.

TEG
 
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