Empty Chat Rooms, Blank messages, Iphone responses.

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Empty Chat Rooms, Blank messages, Iphone responses.

Hi,
When I open iChat on my mac I get two things that pop up; my last chat with a friend (now completely blank) and an empty chat room titled (Empty Chat Room). Now when I message people on my buddy list, I can only get their response...on my iPhone via text AND AIM application. Now I've deleted com.apple.ichatAgent.plist and reset, but nothing. I've tried rejoining the chat room to make sure I didn't close it properly but won't show their responses or mine. Now when I type, I just see the ellipsis and the words, but when I hit enter just the ellipsis. This is followed by a response on my phone. Should I take off the AIM application on my phone? Should I take of mobile fowarding? Thanks in advance.

Mac G5, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Aug 10, 2008 12:17 AM

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Aug 10, 2008 12:26 PM in response to andeli

First of all go to iChat > Preferences > Messages Section and if you don't want them deselect +Remember my Open Chats across Launch+

This will stop old Chats opening when you start up iChat.

In theory an Open chat should have the the details of the things your were saying in it and not be Blank like you describe (well chat rooms can be but often are not - even though everyone has left the text should be there)

com.apple.ichatAgent.plist is the one I would have started with myself as well

Also go to the File menu in iChat and the Go to Chatroom option and make sure you are not Auto-joining any rooms.

It may pay to stop AIM Forwarding as a test.

Are there any messages about iChat in Console (Applications/Utilities) ?

8:26 PM Sunday; August 10, 2008

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Aug 10, 2008 7:22 PM in response to andeli

The only options I get in preferences is for Audio/Video. As for the Agent list, tried that. There is no error message that pops up at all.

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andeli Author

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Aug 10, 2008 9:37 PM in response to andeli

I deleted everything in the utilities and it reset my Aim, making it now work. 🙂

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Aug 11, 2008 12:22 PM in response to andeli

Console is an Application in the Applications then Utilities folder.

It allows you to see various reports as they happen and keeps a on going live log of events on the computer.

There are other applications in the Utilities folder that are for looking at or helping with various bits of the OS or things such as Airport Base Stations and even MIDI Devices.

Your Mac will run without these but I would not discard them out of hand.
The KeyChain Access in particular can be very useful on a now and then basis, as can the Activity Monitor.

In fact I am not aware that deleting anything in that folder will make iChat suddenly work.

8:22 PM Monday; August 11, 2008

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Aug 11, 2008 7:47 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

I'm not that sure either. I just went for broke and deleted everything in the folder and got it to work I suppose. Thanks for the advice though.

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Aug 12, 2008 9:39 AM in response to andeli

Hi,

Ever since I got the aim application for my iPhone my ichat has stopped working. I can receive messages but can't reply. Also, whenever I get a video chat my computer automatically declines.

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Aug 12, 2008 11:30 AM in response to demianne

Hi,

Welcome to the  Discussions

In iChat > Preferences > Alerts check ypou do not have this setting.

Mainly the the option in the drop down pointed out by the orange Arrow and then the option checkbox pointed out by the left hand blue arrow and the Decline option in that drop down.

7:30 PM Tuesday; August 12, 2008

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Sep 19, 2008 7:39 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Do you know how to delete the aim (ichat) chat room history???

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