How can i acivate iMessage on my mac for the OS 10.7.5 , is it possible ?? if yes can someone tell me from where can i download

Sorry, but can't do it. "iMessages" Only runs in Mountain Lion OS X 10.8; not Lion OS X 10.7.

Hope this helps 🙂

But it was there in Lion OS X 10.7.4. what happend now?.....

Vijay Kotha wrote:

But it was there in Lion OS X 10.7.4. ...

No it wasn't...

Messages was introduced in Mountain Lion... Not Lion...

http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/

Apple launched a Beta of iMessage while Lion was still on the market and you were able to download it on the Apple site. I think they have taken it down now...u may be apple to find the beta version of message somewhere...try google

As indocafe says iMessage was alive in 10.7 and even under 10.7.5 as I'm still using my "beta version" on my iMac (shhh don't tell anybody), however I remember very well that some months ago when Apple decided to end the Beta period they made available the same application from the App Store at 1 USD/1 CHF, obviously a nominal price. Well it appears that it was not considered good strategy to make available one key feature of the 200+ features of Mountain Lion for 1 USD since the app has dissappeared from the App Store. When I type iMessage the first search result is Mountain Lion followed by a couple of dozen apps that provide similar or related services.

Well it happens to be that after an operating system re-installation using the hidden partition, messages or iMessage was erased or maybe it was considered/installed as part of the operating system instead of as a separate application. Result is, no more messages for my newly reinstalled MacBook Pro, I guess that if I try to reinstall the beta version app, it will show the message I've seen elsewhere in the discussions "Beta period is over".

On the bright side, if you haven't reinstalled a fresh copy of Lion, you might be able to install a googled version of Beta iMessages.

Anybody collecting signatures to request iMessage to be put back into the App Store???

Unfortunately, I am one of the disenfranchised owners of an older, but perfectly usable MacBook. Apple decided that my MacBook was too old to upgrade to Mountain Lion, so I'm stuck at Lion.

I would be interested in a reasonably priced app that would add iMessage functionality back into Lion. I also have an iPad and use it to communicate with my wife (iPad Mini) and friends with iPads. Having iMessage available on "legacy" Macs sure would be a nice gesture to those of us who are happy, or at least don't want to or can't afford to upgrade to the spiffy new MacBooks.

-craig-

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I have a desktop that is running 10.7.5 and laptop with 10.8.

Can I just copy my edition of iMessages from the laptop to my destop's apps folder?

Will that work?

Aaron

You may try to do that, however my understanding is that Messages sends the info of the host machine to Apple servers (because Messages is a server/cloud based service) and then it may simply block you in the same way it does with the beta version you probably had before.

On the other hand, I had positive results in the past by copying recently retired applications like iDVD from an older computer to a Mountain Lion based computer.

Bottom line is, you have nothing to loose by trying; only the time it takes to copy a file and install it.

Good luck.