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iChat not playing nice

Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Vaath, Mar 31, 2009.

Vaath Notebook Deity

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Hey all,

Was traveling from Florida to my hometown in North Carolina when I stopped at a local hotel halfway. Hotel had wireless so I popped on and noticed something weird. I start iChat and it goes nuts! Kept logging on and off at the speed of light without actually connecting. After 15 seconds it said connect later because you have tried to many times for now.

Well I fire it up 30 min later it starts but there is no windows popping up for it anymore. The top bar changes to ichat but no menu or window or anything.

So I figure I would try again when I got home, same problem

Can't get a window to do anything in iChat to connect or anything.

Any ideas?

Vaath, Mar 31, 2009

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qhn Notebook User

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Try this. Dont connect to the net, start iChat. Then reconnect to the net.

cheers ...

qhn, Mar 31, 2009

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If the window for iChat doesn't come up when you start it and the top bar changes to iChat, click on the iChat icon again and the buddy list should come up. If not, check all your spaces if you have spaces set up, because it could be in on of those spaces.

Colton, Mar 31, 2009

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