Wednesday, January 23, 2013

OS X 10.8: remove HTML formatting in messages.app for ICQ/AIM

Handlungsanweisung on how to remove the awkward HTML formatting that messages.app on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) produces for ICQ or AIM accounts:

  1. quit messages.app
  2. open terminal.app
  3. if ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iChat.AIM.plist.lockfile exists,
    rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iChat.AIM.plist.lockfile
  4. in terminal.app, 
    open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iChat.AIM.plist
  5. (XCode will start)
  6. Locate ICQ Account under root -> Accounts and set 
    ForceICQPlainText to YES
  7. File -> Save
  8. Reboot!
    Yes, seriously, boot your box. I know, feels strange on OS X.
    But if you start messages.app before rebooting, the setting above will not be saved. And you have to start over (-> goto 1.) again.
Now, happy plaintext ICQing.

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