Ralph Johns UK

To see what the capabilities of your Buddy are, you can do the following:

1. Click on a Buddy's entry in the Buddy List (or any part of the band they are in).
   Or Control (right click) when on your Buddy and select Get Info from the menu that appears and jump to item 3


2. Click the Apple Key () (Command ⌘) and "i" at the same time.


3. When the window open use the drop down item at the top and select your Buddy's account name. Under the text entry field called "Notes", you will see the capablities of yor buddy listed (if they are on line).


4. Close the window.

There several ways you can send files.

1. Without any chat taking palce.


2. With a text chat.


3. When Video or Audio chatting.

Without starting a chat you can send files by dragging tham on top of your Buddy's entry in the Buddy list and letting go. You will then get a Dialogue box to Send the file. They will get an invite to accept the file. When they do you will see a progress window. This is useful if your Buddy is on dial-up and/or has limited Bandwidth.

(Note: It has been found that some people set different download folders from the default Desktop choice and that sometimes there are variations in where incoming files are put. Whislt in Text chat, files are always put on the desktop, even if the download folder is selected as somewhere else. At other times iChat respects the download folder location)

During a text chat you can employ several ways.

1. The one listed above.


2. By using the 'Attach File' item from the Edit menu.


3. By dragging the file to the Text entry point until the green + sign appears and letting go. Then you have to click in the text entry field and hit Enter.

During an Audio or Video chat you can employ any of the methods listed above. To use the Text field entry method you will have to have a Text chat at the same time.

Note: on lower speed internet connections with iChat 2, the Video will in fact pause during the file sending. The Bitrate will drop, as shown in the Connection Doctor, to about 24kbps in iChat to iChat connections. In iChat 2 to PC connections the Bitrate wil drop to Zero and the chat may fail with a "No Data for 10 secs" error message

© 2005 Ralph Johns: Edited 24/9/2005, 5/5/2006
Updated September 2006. Moved to Gargoyles and edited Mar 2007

This is no more explanation needed as this is such a compact page.

I use the dropping in the Text field of the Text chat and then hit enter.

If I have problems with this, then I use the Drop-it-on-a-Buddy method