what happened to ichat

HI,

If you are using OS 10.5.2 as you say in your specs you must have removed it.

Most likely this is from the DOCK only and you should find it in the Applictaions Folder

If it is not there then Check with Spotlight.

9:19 PM Saturday; February 25, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

If you installed Messages, that could be it. Messages deletes iChat after it's installed.I noticed that when I got Messages on my MacBook Pro.

Messages can't be installed on OS 10.5.x which is why I mentioned his Specs and left the Messages part out.

10:00 PM Saturday; February 25, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

The app is called Messages.

It can do iMessages to iPhones, Apple IDs on Phones, iPads and iPod Touches and other Macs.

Whilst it does not do Video to iMesages contacts it does give your access to FaceTime (if they use the same ID with FaceTime.

The previous Buddy List that iChat had are still there and these still show the iChat Video iCons for Connecting (As well as the Menu items having the same options - mainly the Buddies Menu and the right click a Buddy option).

Tio be clear, Messages is built on the iChat engine.

iChat in Lion was at verion 6.0.1 with the OS 10.7.3 update

Messages is listed as being Version 6.1 (Already)

Crash Logs still call the app iChat.

Process:	iChat [719]
Path:	/Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat
Identifier:	com.apple.iChat
Version:	6.1 (2051)
Build Info:	iChat-2058000000000000~3
Code Type:	X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [123]

Date/Time:	2012-02-16 19:28:04.860 +0000
OS Version:	Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50)

Report Version: 9

Interval Since Last Report:	3654 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:	1

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 207 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Anonymous UUID:

906CB5C6-FFFC-469D-A86B-28EB0D5005D7

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000d, 0x0000000000000000

VM Regions Near 0:

-->

__TEXT

000000010d5ce000-000000010d8a7000 [ 2916K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat

Application Specific Information:

objc_msgSend() selector name: respondsToSelector:

objc[719]: garbage collection is OFF

Messages has an Uninstall option that replaces iChat in the Applications Folder whilst removing Messages.

This means that Messages does iChat Video and Audio Only chats to yuor Previous iChat Buddies.

7:46 PM Sunday; February 26, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously