iMessage won't send pictures after Mountain Lion

not so long: deleting the prefs and/or updating osx worked fine for a week or so...until yesterday. file transfer via osx imsg is broken again. hmpf! 😠

The problem has been fixed.

It's not allowed to talk about details here. But one hint: Wait a few weeks. 😉

Nothing's worked for me so far. I can SEND photos but not receive them on my imac. My ipod, however downloads them fine. My imac merely shows "Preparing..." and hangs.

I had a similar issue last month with iMessages beta but it turned out to be a server issue.

I always just had to reboot.

This solution worked perfectly. Thanks!

HI,

This does seem to be a cross between a server issue and Messages itself.

However it could also be one of those things that can be "fooled" by the Force Quitting of the IMTransferAgent.

Most people seem to report the issues arises for them if the Messages app is Off line when the Pics are sent or Asleep.

This suggests the Server can't tell what has been sent and what should be synced.

Of course one view would be the app can't tell if it is new or synced stuff that is being sent.

10:10 PM Thursday; September 13, 2012

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

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 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

I am having the same issue with picture messages not sending or receiving. In addition, my file transfers window is completely empty. An update is MUCH needed.

HI,

What service are you trying to send Pics or Files over ?

Some Jabber servers need you to enable the file transfer part of the services the Jabber Server offers.

This would normally be done with a Third Party app like Psi.

I would not consider the Yahoo service offering in iChat 6 and Messages to be good enough for testing File Transfers.

7:54 PM Sunday; September 16, 2012

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

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 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

I have the same problem: iMessage working fine on iPhone & iPad but on iMac I can neither receive nor send photos. Messages with photos attached don't arrive at all. If I try to send a photo to myself, after 5 minutes the photo disappears out of the iMessage thread, as if I've deleted it! Looking at the activity monitor, incoming photos have a 'stopped' starus and outgoing ones a zero kb status. I'm not prepared to delete various files in Finder every day to get it to work, I'd rather rely on my iPad etc and await a fix: there clearly is a problem but it's weird that it's limited to a few. There's another post on the same subject: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4159310?start=15&tstart=0

and no real solution there either. Irritating. A supposed feature of Mountain Lion that has the oposite effect of 'feature'...

HI,

Have you tried Tyler 130's suggestion

See Tyler130's post dated the 19th August

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4173338?start=15&tstart=0

(I cannot get that thread to show me the right individual posts)

8:32 PM Monday; September 24, 2012

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

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and and iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Thanks Ralph for your message. I have Tyler130's suggestion and it did get the pictures flowing again - thanks!

Good to hear.

9:21 PM Tuesday; September 25, 2012

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

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and and iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Hi Where do I find those settings to delete? I'm confused. Thank you

Hi

In the Finder > Go Menu > Hold the ALT key down > Select Library (That appears) > Navigate to Preferences.

You have to use this method as the Library in the Users own folder is now Hidden.

10:59 PM Friday; October 19, 2012

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

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Thank you!