Help with Messages

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  1. hipstep, Oct 16, 2012

    hipstep macrumors newbie

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    So I just got my first Mac and loving it. Its running Mountain Lion so I have the new messages and not Ichat like in the past. I have friends who use ichat still though and I would like to be able to talk with them over messages still. Is this possible because i entered in there @mac.com ID into there contact information and then it said unable to do send message. I tried googling and searching a few forums but nothing came up that worked.
     
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  2. satcomer, Oct 17, 2012

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    Then open System Preferences->Mail, Contacts & Calendar and add an AOL account. Then reopen Messages and activate that AOL account.
     
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  3. Weaselboy, Oct 17, 2012

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    Yep... then hit command-1 to bring forward the old chat window as it will be hidden my the new Messages window.
     
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  4. hipstep, Oct 23, 2012

    hipstep thread starter macrumors newbie

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    Thank you very much. Got it working pretty much right away but I dont really know why since i actually tried that before without the cmd-1...:confused:
     
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