[X-Apps] iChat no longer launches

[W Lane]

On Aug 4, 2004, at 16:49, Steve wrote:

> Great suggestion!
>
>
> I am almost kicking myself for not trying that.
>
> I created a new user, enabled user switching, and the program runs 
> from the
> alternate user. So I copied the prefs (4 files) from
> ~/Library/Preference/com.Apple.ichat.* to my main user.

OK, I suspect this would be a problem. I don't believe that you can 
copy/move preferences from one User direct to another, permissions 
would likely be a problem.

Have you run Disk Utility and/or Preferential Treatment?