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Messages baffles me

How do you do Share My Desktop in Messages. I help a few friends with problems on their Macs and I used to use iChat.


Can't quite dope it out in Messages.


Thanks.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Oct 10, 2012 8:03 AM

2 replies

May 20, 2015 2:00 PM in response to Carlo TD

That doesn't do it for me. It just gives me my Buddy List and that doesn't seem to work anymore. E.g., I was Messaging with a pal who is on that Buddy List and his entry there never lit up: no green camera.


He explained the way to do a Share My Desktop/Screen sharing was to type the name of the person whose screen you want to share into the Messages To: box, then, when contact is established, click on the camera icon next to that To: box.


Worked just fine.


How do you get the old Buddy List to "light up" showing the person with whom you are exchanging Messages?

Messages baffles me

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