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mancubuss

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AIM away messages are very important to me...is there any way to transfer them from my pc to a mac?
 
iChat is just Apple's re-lable of AIM anyway.

Away messages work the same, but you also get Video Chat and encryption.
 
What? Please tell me you are kidding?

Don't get a Mac if the deal breaker is away messages. Please save us all.
 
lol...this is the funniest question I've read.

maybe the op is just joking around?

if so, good one! 😀
 
It's not that strange of a question.

My daughter wanted to install AIM on my G5, just because she was used to using
AIM on her P/C

I showed her how to configure iChat and now she loves it.
She would like a better selection on smilies though.

She's actually more upset that my firewall settings limit what she can do
on MySpace.
 
Just copy them over manually. I bet your away messages are old anyways, time for something new. you could also try to send yourself the AIM preferences file.
 
well, i'm really half joking lol

i AM getting a mac, and a friend of mine who has converted me offered to manually convert all of my hundreds of away messages over if i buy one

when i got the pc im on now i was able to switch them over by copying the windows registry file to a disc...but apparently on macs the away messages arent stored in the registry so it would be hard(impossible) to switch them over, i just thought maybe clever someone here would know a way
 
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