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Messenger 5 for Mac
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dontpanic said:yes i had that problem too
Are you having constant crashes with file transfers to?? Also this is weird, I had a complete system crash today. I had to hold down the restart button. I cant remember the last time I had one of those; I think it was a few years ago. Very annoying, but dont know if its related or just a coincidence. And before anyone suggests repair permissions, I do it daily
and I run Mac janitor to. Jay
msn 5 hmmm lots of problems im having, people typing, theere name coming , but no message,,,, and even wierder, log in with Adium,, and see them typign again, then it comes up with an error, saying somat like tere was an error ,, i cant rem what, it was late last nite, but everything ok today,,,,
okay, i see what everyone is saying now.. msn 5 is crap.. i talk to my friends on it and like half way through the convo's it tells me they disconnected.. when in fact they have not so im like wtf.. with msn 4 i don't have this issue at all so go figure, the older version is more stable and works better.
I've been using it since it came out and I've had one disconnect during a conversation. Maybe I'm just lucky
AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
File transfers and stuff work now, but why can I STILL not rename my contacts??? It's not a lot to ask, is it? Deciphering names whenever people are chatting to me is incredibly annoying!
:'(
File transfers and stuff work now, but why can I STILL not rename my contacts??? It's not a lot to ask, is it? Deciphering names whenever people are chatting to me is incredibly annoying!
:'(
Gah - tell me about it. I'm always polite enought to put something like "hob-[stupid random quote]" or something. Easier than talking to "pot-bellied monkeys landed on my doorstep this morning"...J@ffa said:
Ok, the confusion over the blank messages is growing!!
While talking to a friend online it kept happening. I explained the situation to them and asked them what they were trying to send. It turns out they were trying to send the word "cool" to me...but it kept coming back blank, with messenger making a noise (like the "denied" or "failed" noise).
To make it more confusing they tried to send it me with more o's in, but with no luck!!...only one worked, when there were about 10 o's in it!!..the rest came back blank!!...so they're stuck to using "kewl" and not "cool"...strange eh?!! It comes out ok on their screen!
While talking to a friend online it kept happening. I explained the situation to them and asked them what they were trying to send. It turns out they were trying to send the word "cool" to me...but it kept coming back blank, with messenger making a noise (like the "denied" or "failed" noise).
To make it more confusing they tried to send it me with more o's in, but with no luck!!...only one worked, when there were about 10 o's in it!!..the rest came back blank!!...so they're stuck to using "kewl" and not "cool"...strange eh?!! It comes out ok on their screen!
I've reported the problem to Microsoft incase anyone else hasn't! To amuse them! Hopefully will fix these problems...worth a shot.
hob said:
Hopefully it gets updated more often than MSN 4, which I do believe was only upgraded to 4.0.1 when it was barely working at all. Do Microsoft have a user feedback thing, and is it read? Hehe
Langly said:Hark at you, with your crystal ball
My word, some of you guys are very critical not to say picky of something that's (a) Free, and (b) Free!
I realise that's only one point, but it's such a good one, I thought it deserved making twice
I think you meant "(a) Free, and (b) from Microsoft!"
I thought that this was going to be a good update, but apparently not.
Here's to the next version of Office including a better version of the client.-Chase
Gil_Grissom said:
This problem is driving me insane!! I'm not sure what is triggering it on my system.
And file transfers are often crashing the program.. Just quits without an error message.
So many bugs....
You know what the funny thing with all of this? I was waiting for Messenger 5 for the longest time, and then when it finally came out, it took me a few days to download it. And now, since I've downloaded it, I've hardly used it. Now I ask myself what I waiting for, as I'm not really excited to use this app at all anymore, and from some of the reviews, I'm not really missing out... Ah well, whatever...
Now I ask myself what I waiting for, as I'm not really excited to use this app at all anymore, and from some of the reviews, I'm not really missing out... Ah well, whatever...
Chundles said:
If I have many windows open, and are chatting to a lot of people.. If someone tries to send a large file.. Sometimes it will just quit randomly.
Not very solid at all. It seems they didn't do much in the way of testing!
yeah im so over msn 5... i thought it was going to be the best thing ever, guess not. so as of now im sticking with ichat for the aim buddies (don't get me started on adium and/or aim for mac) and msn messenger 4.0.1 for my msn friends... at least it "seems" to work.. and the whole thing about buddy pics... meh.. w/e
CubaTBird said:don't get me started on adium and/or aim for mac
What issue do you have with Adium?
I don't really know anyone using Yahoo IM or AIM for that matter so I only use Adium for MSN chats. If I do have to speak with an AIM user I'll use iChat.
The rate we're going with Microsoft and "Microsoft Messenger for Mac", we'll be better hoping that Apple with make iChat Microsoft client compatible, which Microsoft will probably try and stop...**sigh**, oh well!
Come on guys, it's not THAT bad. It's actually a lot more than I expected from Microsoft (which wasn't much).
That happens sometimes when someone sends a large custom emoticon. They might take a while to transfer so in the meantime all you can see is an empty message.
j_maddison said:
That happens sometimes when someone sends a large custom emoticon. They might take a while to transfer so in the meantime all you can see is an empty message.