A very bad night. I’ve recently been blessed with this particular problem: iChat quitting seconds after launch.
Reinstall iChat: no luck.
Reinstall iChat, patch through Software Update to 10.4.3 : no luck.
Run Combo Updater as recommended after reinstalling iChat: no luck.
Only now Mail is broken too; all my messages are there, but there’s no text loading in the panels. I’m loathe to reinstall Mail - I’ve backed up the Mboxes just now, even though the GUI is broken, I’m guessing the data is OK. It’s 3 years of Mail I pretty much can’t bear to lose.
So right now, I have a 12″ Paperweight. I’m really, really low about this; no idea how to fix it, no time to reinstall it for a good couple of days. Terrified. Depressed.
I’ve had that happen to me with iChat too, on early versions of Panther. Never with Mail though. And to be honest, I’m not sure I ever figured out how to fix it — it just went away eventually. Which is… odd.
Shit. That’s bad. I’ve been having trouble with iChat recently, but I blamed AIM, as the same issue seemed to afflict Adium, so it’s probably not the same issue. Good luck…
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So, you may or may not remember that I was afflicted with this pain in the neck of a problem: namely, you launch iChat, it loads for a second, and then [...]