ichat and jaguar issues

[Maccrazy17]

I recently tried to install panther and had no luck on a powermac g4 466 Mhz 640Mb RAM, 30 Gb HD....meets all requirements, but would quite install 95% of the way through. tried 5-6 times....removed a bunch of third party stuff and still nothing. apple tried helping too.

anyways, i had to revert back to 10.2.8 and i could not perserve user settings, got all messed up. So I am trying to copy over files, but the new app ichat will open and ask me to set up my account and I do, but then the app just closes. What happened? i have tried repairing permissions and nothing.

I am thinking to buying an external drive to save/backup all data so i can erase and install panther. Any ideas of what will work with panther too.

Michael

Address book and internet explorer preferences also lost?!

PowerMac G4
466 Mhz
640Mb RAM
30 Gb HD
10.2.8

PowerMac G5
1.8 ghz
512 Mb RAM
160 gb HD
10.3.2

 

[FightTheFuture]

sounds like your planning to archive and install. prolly your best bet. everyone seemed to have huge problems simply upgrading. except for me of course

 

[Maccrazy17]

is there a way I can reinstall ichat itself with out reinstalling 10.2? This is really upseting and taking way to long to fix. Apple wants $30 for ichat 2.0 which is free in 10.2 but it didn't load right.

In the system log i see a crash dump for ichat, what can i do to fix it?


please help

Michael

 

[wrldwzrd89]

is there a way I can reinstall ichat itself with out reinstalling 10.2? This is really upseting and taking way to long to fix. Apple wants $30 for ichat 2.0 which is free in 10.2 but it didn't load right.

In the system log i see a crash dump for ichat, what can i do to fix it?


please help

Michael

You might not need to reinstall - try deleting iChat's preferences file and relaunching iChat first. The file is located here: '~/Library/Preferences/' where ~ is your home directory. The file is probably called 'com.apple.iChat.plist'.

 

[Maccrazy17]

trashed preferences and ran repair permissions, seemed like it fix permissions on ichatagent and ichat.app, but still after a restart ichat opens asks for setup info and crashes. Looks like i'll be doing a clean install and erase. Anyone got an extra firewire drive for me!

michael