iChat Don't Work

TEG

macrumors 604

Original poster

• Oct 26, 2003

• #1

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

• Oct 26, 2003

• #2

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

macrumors 604

• Oct 26, 2003

• #3

try extracting the package off the panther disc and reinstall.

iJon

 

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froehle

macrumors newbie

• Oct 26, 2003

• #4

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.

 

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Panther Blue

macrumors regular

• Oct 26, 2003

• #5

Oh god, I hope this doesn't happen to everyone in the next two days. Can we pinpoint a cause here?

 

TEG

macrumors 604

Original poster

• Oct 26, 2003

• #6

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