These iChatAV (Version 2) pages are coloured Green and have the iChat 2 icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs from Version 1 by having the camera logo added.

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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iChatAV (Version 2) Pictures

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02 iChat 2 File Menu

Oct 2008

2 File Menu Picture

This is the iChat 2 File Menu and I will be working left to right as I have done in the original series of Pictures. The floating hand icon between the File and Edit Menus in the Menu Bar is a feature of the App I used to grab the picture.

Of the Dark text items that are active in this Picture the "Go to Chat" option is to start a Group Chat by typing in a name of your choice or to join a Room name that you know.

What is Dark and Active depends to some extent on which iChat Window is "Front" or has what is called Focus. For instance, the bottom three currently greyed out go dark when a Chat Window is on view and "Front"."

"New Chat with Person" will enable you to Start a Direct Chat (text) with a specific Buddy.

"New Chat" in iChat 2 brings up an option to select Text, Audi or Video chat with one Buddy.

Open and Open Recent are ways to open Saved Transcripts (old iChat Text chats that have been saved in the iChat format. Obviously you have had to have opened one before to Open it as a Recent. Open Recent is not for restarting a chat with a Buddy that has just finished. Nor can you restart a Saved Chat. Saved Transcripts, if you use the option in the Messages section of the iChat Preferences, will be in ~/Documents/iChats and list by Buddy Name and Date & Time. ( the Tilde or ~ symbol means your Home Folder or Hard Drive/Users/(your account name here) then the Documents listed).

When a Text chat or Group chat is Open you can manually Save with Save As and give it a name of your choice. You can of course use the option to Save Transcripts of chats in the Messages Section of the Preferences. Those are saved in your Documents Folder and in a folder called iChats that is specifically made.

I have never tried the Print options.

The Next menu to the right is The Edit Menu

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Information Block

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

The File Menu and what it does. The Text below the picture explains things is more detail.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September 2024 meaning that the Browsers listed below are likely to no longer work.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

The original pages worked with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) would only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.