How to Skype with OS X 10.6.8?

try this with skype 6.15 & os 10.6.8:

1. Quit Skype
2. Go to Applications Folder in Finder and Right Click on the Skype icon
3. Select "Show Package Contents"
4. Click on Info.plist
5. Scroll Down until you locate Locate these 3 lines:

</array>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>6.15.0.335</string>

Replace with:

</array>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>7.36.0.507</string>

6. Then go to File and click on Save, or press Command+S

7. Re-open Skype

i found it in another forum, it works.

try this with skype 6.15 & os 10.6.8:

1. Quit Skype
2. Go to Applications Folder in Finder and Right Click on the Skype icon
3. Select "Show Package Contents"
4. Click on Info.plist
5. Scroll Down until you locate Locate these 3 lines:

</array>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>6.15.0.335</string>

Replace with:

</array>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>7.36.0.507</string>

6. Then go to File and click on Save, or press Command+S

7. Re-open Skype

i found it in another forum, it works.

Leberger Jacob...I agree with your sentiments COMPLETELY (f****k Skype).

Thank you for posting an alternative above but ICQ now requires 10.7 and later. 😟 I use 10.6.8 and will continue until I just can't anymore. Video chat is not essential. I will keep looking for another solution. Please post if you know of something else like ICQ. I loved that app back in the day.

Gracias Apfelmuseins, lo he probado y ¡¡funciona!!, he podido hablar y realizar video-conferencias con amig gracias a tu tutorial.

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Thanks Apfelmuseins, I tried it and it works! I was able to talk and video-confer with friends thanks to your tutorial.

Have you managed to fix this issue? I am running Skype 6.15.0.334 on Mac OS 10.6.8 as well. With the instructions of the fix, I am able to login Skype for text but unable to audio/video to some of my friends on Skype.

Hello Mosflm:

This worked again on the latest Skype updte. Thanks! Since this is an ongoing issue, where are you getting the update version numbers? Such as 8.11.0.4 ??? Would be good to be able to find them without coming on here. Thanks again!

Hi Williwing

I got the version number by downloading the latest copy of Skype and looking in info.plist - if anyone else knows a way to get the number without downloading a version I can't use I would really like to know!

Hello,

I tried this a few months ago with my version 10.7.5 and it worked! thanks.

However, today I was barred from Skype as I have this version, and when I tried this it no longer worked. Is there something else I can do to allow me to use Skype on 10.7.5?

Thanks for looking at this Mosflm,

The request for installing the plug-in comes when I click on a contact to call them. I can text message them with no problems. This is what it comes up with:

When I click on 'Install Plugin' it says:

When I click 'add extension', it says:

When I click 'go to the chrome web store' it lets me add the extension but it doesn't make any difference, I still can't make calls.

As for saving the info.plist; I guess I don't know how to do that. The date last saved was 2014 and it's the same for all the contents in the Contents folder. When I change the numbers and go to 'file' and 'save as' it offers to save it in 'documents' I can't see a way to save it to 'Contents'. Hopefully this whole issue rests on being as simple as working out how to save the numbers??!!!

So, how do i check to see the actual version that I'm running?

And, how do I check if I have sufficient privilege to save those changes? (I have never heard of 'Sudo', so can't 'do' that either)

Next, I saved the 'plist' to the desktop and then copied it from the desktop to the 'Contents' folder but the old plist remains. I deleted the old plist and the new one is still there with todays date. I relaunched skype and click to call a contact but still no luck, still asking for the plugin.

I'm sure I'm just missing a vital step along the way. Please assume that I have no clue what I'm doing, because I don't. Am I supposed to delete all the Skype files on my mac and then re-install at some point in this sequence?

I'm using the little Skype icon next to the address bar:

I have no idea if that makes a difference. I've tried everything again while signing in from going to Skype.com

If I launch the desktop app for Skype from the applications folder, which it now is not letting me even do that, it would usually ask for my log in info and then say, 'Can't Connect'. Now when I try to launch it, nothing happens. The skype logo zooms in towards me then pops off and nothing else happens.....

If my version is buggy and my numbers are: 6.15.0.334, how do I find a version for 6.15.0.335? I've uninstalled this a few times now and reinstalled a version for 10.6.8 and it always has these numbers: 6.15.0.334.....

Thanks again for looking into this. I appreciate any help and tips no matter how obvious it may seem to you. I might have missed it. I don't really know what I'm doing with this so need all the help I can get.

Cheers

Hi gallion1,

Would you be willing to walk me through the steps of how to do this from the very start? And I mean every little step, assuming I'm a complete dummy. I can't see why this isn't working when it seems to work for everybody else! I think I'm missing a vital step.

Thanks a lot

Thanks gallion1!

Your instructions to change and save the new version numbers have worked for me. In all other instructions that I have come across one piece was missing which made it impossible for me to work out. So thanks a lot, I am now able to log into the skype app. The thing now is that none (except one) of my contacts are there. Did you have this problem? what did you do to get them back? When I log into the web version of skype all my contacts are there and I can text them but I can't call them and they can't call me, it just drops the call when I answer, or when I click them to make the call. Same for video or without.

So, I have 'searched' for some of my contacts in the 'add contact' section in the app and have been able to send requests to some but not all of my contacts. Some of the contacts it simply won't even find, even tho' I have them on the web version and communicate with them frequently.

Of the contacts I find, some have called successfully, and I have called them, but my app doesn't recognize them as a contact. They are still greyed out with the question mark and 'Pending Contact' next to their name. I have one contact that I am successfully connected to, so I know that it's working somewhere in there but I can't work out why my skype won't accept the other contacts. Any ideas about that? Further, some of the contacts that I have been able to send requests to are showing our previous conversation history, even tho' they are not recognised as a contact.

Of course it would be better still if there was a button I could click and all of my original contacts reappeared.

Thanks a lot for all of your help, you've saved me a massive headache so far.

Thanks mosflm!

I have finally managed to get the app working but it's lost all of my contacts!
I replied to Gallion1 about that below. Not sure if you would have insights about where the contacts have gone or how to get them back?

Thanks again for all of your help, you guys are saving me big headaches!

When you open Skype, click on "Contacts" in the left column and click on "Skype" on the top bar. All of your previous contacts should be there. If not click on "All" and everyone in your address book should appear. Click on the picture of the contact and the contact should appear. Click on the little video icon and a call will be attempted and fail if they are not on line. Then click on "send a video message" and send your invitation to join.

Thank you very much Apfelmuseins! So glad this fix worked for me!

did not work for me