Purchased FaceTime ver 1.0.4 for iMac running Snow Leopard. Now can't activate.

Many users have got stuck in the same problem.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6084490

For an iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, I applied the update as well and didn't use FaceTime right away - AND now I just tried FaceTime and found this! Very disappointing! It seems lately no updates are safe anymore!😮

Also if you don't have a back up of the right time period no way to revert back to 1.0.2.😟

An update for FaceTime 1.0.5 for OSX 10.6 was just posted at App Store. I'm downloading now and hope this fixes the issue!

Seems to work well on the Mac now, but still seems to be unrepaired for connecting to devices running iOS 6.

Here's the official response:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5419

Updating iDevices to iOS 6.1.6 should fix the issue on devices running iOS 6.

Amazing that one has to pay for updates to fix Apple's broken software, especially since it's free for Lion and above.

Just curious which updates you are talking about.

Do you mean the update from 1.0.2 or 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 is not free ?

I thought it is.

Unless I'm missing something, Apple states: If you’re using Mac OS X v10.6, you should get the latest version of FaceTime for Mac in the Mac App Store. The Mac App Store shows:

Thank you for the reply.

As my father-in-law's MacBook (10.6.8) with FaceTime 1.0.4 is not at hand now, I can not check it for myself right away.

But my understanding is :

(1) FaceTime 1.0.5 update is free for download for the OSX 10.6 users who have already purchased and installed FaceTime 1.0.4 or earlier.

(2) The OSX 10.6 users who want to start using FaceTime from now, need to purchase the 1.0.5 for $0.99 (just as other OSX 10.6 users did before).

The latter (2) is because OSX 10.6 does not include FaceTime which was not ready at the time of its release. Due to some accounting regulation, Apple chose to sell the FaceTime to OSX 10.6 users at the mimimum price rather than to add the function afterward for free.

That means every OSX 10.6 user who wants to use FaceTime has to pay $0.99 at some point of time, but I believe Apple is not so greedy to charge the same software twice to fix its bug.

I guess the screen shot you posted might be taken either by a non-OSX 10.6 Mac, or by OSX 10.6 Mac without FaceTime installed. If you see the same page by a OSX 10.6 Mac with FaceTime alreay installed, it will look diffrently.

Anyway, I may be wrong, but I will check it with my father-in-laws' MacBook hopefully this afternoon.

Thanks. I found out that FaceTime doesn't ship w/SL, so anyone who has it, bought it. That being the case, it should only pop up w/the 99¢ price tag.

This afternoon I visited my father-in-law and updated FaceTime 1.0.4 of his MacBook to 1.0.5.

It was free and worked well.

BerkTV,

Open the App Store, look under the Purchases tab, and you should see the update for version 1.05:

Be sure to get the word out about FaceTime 1.05, as there are many posts of people with Snow Leopard having problems with 1.04...