Comments on: iChat’s status messages are nice

By: John Blackburn

John Blackburn — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:07:59 +0000

Mac user, close the chat window and create a new one to clear you status messages.

By: Mac user .

Mac user . — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:02:02 +0000

Jack , thank you so much for the advice! It helped so much!

By: Mac user .

Mac user . — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:58:41 +0000

Hi. I have a question about ichat. My ichat status list is getting a little bit long and I was wondering if there was a way of clearing the entire list of previoous statuses. Thanks.

By: John Blackburn

John Blackburn — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:43:38 +0000

Hi Ashley, if you’re talking about the statuses mentioned in this post like “Mike Wazowski is now online”, the only way I know of to “clear” them it to close the chat window and open a new one to initiate a new chat.

But if you’re talking about the custom status messages you can set yourself, like “eating lunch” or something, you can clear those like this:
1. Bring the Buddy List window to the front.
2. Click on the status popup menu. (It’s in the top-left corner of the Buddy List window.)
3. Choose “Edit Status Menu…” from the status popup menu.
4. Choose the status messages you’d like to delete.
5. Click the ‘-’ (it look like a minus) button below the list.

By: ashley cyllen

ashley cyllen — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:29:36 +0000

ichat is okay i guess. but i hate how you can’t clear out the statuses saved.
i leave alot of different statuses and it saves. but then i want to clear it out.
because whenever i make a new status i have to scroll down through my old ones for like 3 minutes. is there any way i can clear them out? please reply asap. thanks!

By: Bekii

Bekii — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:44:05 +0000

Ichat is… Bearable I suppose. I’m so used to the new version of AIM on my PC, that I get extremely aggravated by many issues….I actually had no idea that file transfers even EXISTED until reading this, which was my one major problem with it…

By: John Blackburn

John Blackburn — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:17:24 +0000

Keith, I agree about iChat’s reliability regarding images and file transfers. Apple has improved things through the many releases, but it’s still buggy. Regardless of the technical challenges involved—and I am sure there are many—it’s still a mystery why the engineers let these problems surface in the UI.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:02:07 +0000

John — I really enjoy your blog.

iChat *is* lovely… for chat. But when you start putting images in there, the reliability goes way down. File transfer between chats is also highly problematic.