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iChat online on two computers at once
Authored by: RiotNrrrd on Dec 11, '03 11:50:28AM
If one computer is away, then other online messages will only reach the online one. I use this to have my home computer as a communications center. It's always Away in iChat and I can connect to it using VNC to review older messages.
Old iChat conversations are stored in ~/Documents/iChats in files named (as of iChatAV 2.0) in a format of:
<Username> on YYYY-MM-DD at HH.MM.chat

You can SSH into your remote computer, cd to ~/Documents/iChats, and do

strings - "<Username> on YYYY-MM-DD at HH.MM.chat"
to see the old conversations without needing VNC or Timbuktu Pro.

I like to be able to use strings and grep on old iChat convos, especially if I'm at work and someone sent me a URL at home (or vice-versa) that I can't remember; e.g. something like

strings - "<Username>*.chat" | grep ttp:
(Personally, though, I agree with the original poster - I don't like this new "feature" of AIM.)

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