Decent MSN Client?

Scythe · 29 Oct 2007 at 21:48

Hi, ive had Adium installed but i cant seem to add anyone to my contacts? I tried Microsoft messenger but that insisted onbeing mounted on my desktop, which I do not want? Is there any good MSN clients out there or is my Adium broke?

LordSplodge · 29 Oct 2007 at 21:56

I was going to say Adium...but looks like you use that and it's broken

Delete and re-install?

[Robster] · 29 Oct 2007 at 22:07

I've been using Adium for a while and have never had any issues with it. Try LordSplodge's suggestion an give it another go.

Scythe · 29 Oct 2007 at 22:17

Yeah, ive reinstalled it now. Cant test a new contact, have to try another time.

theheyes · 29 Oct 2007 at 22:29

Everyone seems to love Adium but I tried it and just couldnt get comfortable with it. I use the Microsoft client. Will MSN really not run from anywhere but the desktop?

Scythe · 29 Oct 2007 at 22:43

theheyes said:
Everyone seems to love Adium but I tried it and just couldnt get comfortable with it. I use the Microsoft client. Will MSN really not run from anywhere but the desktop?

Nope, just mounted a image on the desktop when ran. :confused:

gumbald · 29 Oct 2007 at 22:49

Did you copy the app from the mounted drive to your HD?

I've not had any problems with Adium, only feature its lacking is webcam...

Basher · 29 Oct 2007 at 23:22

I always seem to get connection error when using adium, everyone else seems to love it though

gumbald · 29 Oct 2007 at 23:50

You behind a uni firewall or something? Tried turning on HTTP method?

Scythe · 30 Oct 2007 at 07:49

gumbald said:
You behind a uni firewall or something? Tried turning on HTTP method?

Im on my LAN at home, just got a router and another computer and thats it.

Deleted member 651465 · 30 Oct 2007 at 10:50

theheyes said:
Everyone seems to love Adium but I tried it and just couldnt get comfortable with it. I use the Microsoft client.

Phoen1x · 30 Oct 2007 at 11:25

Another vote for the MS client here, installed to my Apps folder no problem

Phate · 30 Oct 2007 at 11:36

I use the msn client normally.

Or if I want to use a webcam I use Mecury.

Takes a little while getting used to it, but it works.

Cromulent · 2 Nov 2007 at 00:29

Scythe said:
Nope, just mounted a image on the desktop when ran.

Sounds to me like you are just double clicking on the .dmg file. What you need to do is double click the file, open the disk image it creates on the desktop and then copy the Adium program from there into your Applications folder.

artaxerxes · 4 Nov 2007 at 18:01

aMSN, works just like MSN but with webcam support on macs

unknowndomain · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:42

I find it amazing how many people do not understand how mac apps work yet use them every day. To clarify...

When you download an application it usually comes in a file called a dmg, this is a way of storing the application because mac os x applications are not one file but a folder full of files which you can execute by double clicking, so as you cannot download a folder online only files. The folder is put inside a disk image file called dmg which keeps the application structure, and can easily be compressed in a zip or other type of archive.

When you open the dmg it appears on your desktop as a disk like a cd or hdd would do. You then can copy the application to your applications folder and then eject the disk image (dmg).

Once you complete these steps your set, at this point you can delete the old dmg file.

It is as with MSN messenger possible to just keep it on the desktop mounted forever but this is not ideal.

Scythe · 5 Nov 2007 at 18:19

unknowndomain said:
I find it amazing how many people do not understand how mac apps work yet use them every day. To clarify...

When you download an application it usually comes in a file called a dmg, this is a way of storing the application because mac os x applications are not one file but a folder full of files which you can execute by double clicking, so as you cannot download a folder online only files. The folder is put inside a disk image file called dmg which keeps the application structure, and can easily be compressed in a zip or other type of archive.

When you open the dmg it appears on your desktop as a disk like a cd or hdd would do. You then can copy the application to your applications folder and then eject the disk image (dmg).

Once you complete these steps your set, at this point you can delete the old dmg file.

It is as with MSN messenger possible to just keep it on the desktop mounted forever but this is not ideal.

I did install it correctly. I even reinstalled it to no avail.

Decent MSN Client?

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