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1. It looks like Mac users get Yahoo! Messenger with a native skin. How come Windows users don’t?

   Comment by RoJo — February 9, 2009 #

2. @RoJo: Relax RoJo, Even though the Mac OS X version has a more “Mac-like” appearance, it is seriously lacking in features, which is both good and bad. For one thing, it’s annoying that my friends can’t share photos they way the would if I had used Windows. But on the other hand, the lack of features make it way more simpler than the Windows version and no ads.

   Want something real bad? Try MSN Messenger on Windows. I don’t know who is who because my friends keep changing nick name constantly. I open my contact list of 30+ people and it took me a while to figure out who is the person I want to talk to. I now talk to all my MSN friends via Yahoo. The inability to control the names in my contact is a huge minus for me.

   Comment by zoffdino — February 9, 2009 #

3. Kinda reminds me of the Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Just Macish….

   Comment by Homer — February 9, 2009 #

4. Hey, Im a ancious user of yahoo messanger, however I need to know: How I could show my status with current Itunes track without link?

   Thanks

   Comment by DREF — February 9, 2009 #

5. @zoffdino: Sorry if I came off as being enraged or something. I was just curious. The reason I chose to use Yahoo over MSN/Windows Live Messenger in the first place was because I liked having a native skin that wasn’t all cluttered up. I would really love to have

   Yahoo does seem to be a lot more stable than MSN is (my old MSN conversations used to be plagued with long bouts of “message not sent” notifications, which is something I haven’t had a problem with in Yahoo), although I do miss having MSN’s ability to draw and send pictures inside the conversation (that Yahoo Scribbler plug-in doesn’t really compare to that MSN feature).

   Oh well, I shouldn’t be complaining here. Congrats to all of the Mac Yahoo users who just got an update! (Sorry for raining on your parade!)

   Comment by RoJo — February 9, 2009 #

6. @Rojo: I wouldn’t like my Yahoo Messenger for windows to have a native skin. I would like it to have the old YM Vista interface though.

   Comment by Dara — February 9, 2009 #

7. @Dara: The Yahoo Vista skin/interface was great, I much prefer it over the current Windows one. Too bad they abandoned it.

   Comment by RoJo — February 9, 2009 #

8. I’m all for Y! M…however…would be nice to be able to send photos to MSN users.

   Comment by Mike — February 9, 2009 #

9. The new client is very reliable, stable and enhanced its performance.

   While installing the new client, if you installed earlier version of Messenger with root privileges instead of admin privileges will get this warning message “The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items”. Just move the existing client to Thrash folder and install the new build version, it works fine.

   Comment by Shantha Kumar — February 9, 2009 #

10. Yes, to be able to send photos and files to MSN users, and have the vista skin with no ads. Now that would be a nice dream.

    Comment by Predator7 — February 9, 2009 #

11. The only feature I really care about from the PC side of things that is not in the Mac Yahoo version if Photo Sharing. I am constantly having to boot up VMWare Fusion to use this in a virtual Windows environment.

    Can we please add Photo Sharing to the next Yahoo version for Mac users? Save The Cheerleader, Save The World!

    Comment by Ensoniq — February 9, 2009 #

12. Is it really necessary to have a separate File transfers window?

    Please, make transfers integrated in their respective chat tabs, like in the Windows version.

    The transfers window has multiple problems:
    - you can’t double click on a file to open it – you must first reveal it in Finder
    - if you transfer from multiple users or you forgot to clear previous transfers, you don’t know which file is from whom.
    - if you transfer multiple small files and try to chat at the same time, the transfer window steals focus from the chat window

    Comment by serban — February 9, 2009 #

13. Thanks for adding voice support, but now the webcam seems to be broken. I cannot see my friend’s webcam, loops on “starting connection.” Is this a known issue?

    Comment by shruti — February 10, 2009 #

14. Very nice! And I’m happy for the Mac users even though (sadly, in a way) I am not. I still hope we’ll see a Linux version soon. Will we?

    Comment by MAD — February 10, 2009 #

15. Will the UK get this, because their site seems to be void of any Mac software at present?

    Comment by coxy — February 10, 2009 #

16. When will you add address book support for the Mac version?

    Comment by Agustin Carvallo — February 10, 2009 #

17. it has goofy addressbook support, it doesn’t automatically figure out contacts like ichat or amsn, you have to manually link contacts to address cards.

    Also webcam still barely works, although listed as one of the bugfixes.

    Pingbox? i miss something? that’s a new 9.0 feature but i haven’t noticed it at all in mac client yet.

    and new bug. I now get messages from DISABLED profiles, so i’m getting spammed like crazy with bots on my turned OFF profiles that i reserve only for chat. THe reason i created a sub profile for chat was to avoid this, so i can disable it when i leave chat. Now i have to block all messages which I don’t like doing cause sometimes i actually get a real person who did a search or something or looked me up..This needs to be addressed. I’m not liking 50 messages a day from Bots. If the bot problem is not going to be fixed, at least fix the client.

    Comment by MysticalOS — February 10, 2009 #

18. oh found another bug, you cannot delete names off your ignore list if they don’t exist. so now i got a ton of bots on ignore list sine report spam now POINTLESSLY ignores bots (even though the same bot will never message you twice cause it’s haff life is about a day). I get error “unable to remove xxx cause the name does not exist” well no crap it doesn’t exist. So i got a full ignore list of unremovable bots. Brilliant thinking yahoo.

    Comment by MysticalOS — February 10, 2009 #

19. Hi, I wonder how can I save the message archive in a mac, I know how to do that on a pc but a mac, I have no idea. Because when you update to a new version, the archive will lose, but I want to keep my chat history. Can anybody help me? Thank you so much.

    Comment by Kelly — February 10, 2009 #

20. Bah, and i just got the auto ban for deleting names off my ignore list. The server has issued me a ban cause i wanted to delete bots off my ignore list, this ban is blocking me from adding/removing names from buddylist or ignore list, AND it’s blocking me from seeing my buddylist or whos online, it’s also blocking display pictures. Probably PMs too, the PC client usually doesn’t let you login when you get a ban but i guess mac client is bugged with that too, it let me sign in but nothing works. But I know how server ban works, i know you get banned for editing your buddylist too fast (adding or removing x amount of friends within x seconds/minutes etc)….what i didn’t know is that the server script applied same thing to ignore list….I understand why they do it with adding buddies, so you can’t use buddy adding as a way to spam another user. But what i don’t understand is a temp ban from removing buddies or clearing your ignore list of bots. These are examples on how backwards yahoo is. let bots run wild in chat, and PMs, but always constantly punishing real users for things that make no sense.

    Comment by MysticalOS — February 10, 2009 #

21. Thanks for the effort of the yahoo team.

    Comment by Adi — February 10, 2009 #

22. @Kelly -

    You will not lose your IM message archive when you upgrade your Yahoo! Messenger for Mac.

    Hope that helps,

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — February 10, 2009 #

23. it doesnt WORK. I d/l it TWICE, told me it does not support this architecture!!! Im on a macbookpro circa 07 2.3mhz core2 duo, osx 10.5.5. Yahoo has NEVER BENN IMPLEMENTED WELL ON THE MAC AND THIS IS JUST TYPICAL.

    Comment by Stuart — February 10, 2009 #

24. @ stuart – i have yahoo messenger since 2006 on my mac and there aren’t any problems.

    @ yahoo team – keep on doing the same good job guys. when will you release the final version – good sound and webcam quailty, message archiving, not a separate transfer window (who needs that anyway?). we are already stressed, the PC verson has already reached version 9!!!
    we are at version 3

    take care
    florin

    Comment by florin — February 10, 2009 #

25. hi all..its just a question..i jus have a mac and i downloaded yahoo messenger 3.0 for mac…i cant find link to chatrooms in menu…plzzzzzzz help,

    thanx

    Comment by samar — February 10, 2009 #

26. uhh..
    I updated my ym to this version last night..
    and from then on, whenever I try to log in,
    it disconnects for like 2 seconds, reconnect then disconnects again.. this happens 5-9 times before it stabilize..

    I’m quite sure that I’m not having internet connection problems.. I’ve tried bringing my laptop to several places with wi-fi and the same thing happens every time..

    anything in particular I have to do?
    thanks in advance..

    Comment by Clip — February 10, 2009 #

27. I just upgraded my messenger and now I can’t start the webcam anymore? What’s going on?

    Comment by Anca — February 11, 2009 #

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29. I’ve just updated from V3 to V4 for Mac and now I can’t login to my account.

    Every time, it tells me then password is wrong. It worked at first but now it’s impossible.

    Has anyone else had this problem?

    Comment by Matt — February 11, 2009 #

30. Upgraded a few days ago.

    BUG REPORT

    Launching Messenger returns the following error message when “Automatically Sign In” is checked:
    “The application could not connect to the messenger servers.
    The servers may be busy, please try again.”

    This happens EVERY time on any profile where Auto sign in is checked.

    Regular (non automatic) Sign In works. Yes, easy to work around — just sign in manually — but an annoying bug not there in the last version.

    Comment by Ken — February 11, 2009 #

31. this is insane..
    my ym has totally gone mad..

    now it never stabilizes..
    it just keeps on connecting for 2 secs then disconnect then connect again..

    I uninstalled my ym.. and now trying to find a site where I can download the beta 3.0 version 3.. this new version 4 sucks big time in my laptop..

    sadly, all the sites that I’ve visited updated their mirror links already and now ALL lets you download the same version 4…!! I can’t find a version 3 installer!!
    ~x(

    halp?!

    Comment by Clip — February 12, 2009 #

32. ahh! finally solved my problem..

    it turns out that I was in a “Behind Firewall” connection setting..

    I switched to “Default” and it ran out smoothly and normally..

    Comment by Clip — February 12, 2009 #

33. [...] Yahoo! anunciou recentemente a disponibilidade da quarta versão beta do seu Messenger 3.0 para Mac OS X. Apesar de ainda não ser um lançamento estável, a equipe que [...]

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34. The MAC version is awesome, but when my wife views my webcam (she has Vista) she says it goes black. And it happens anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes after she starts viewing my webcam. My side says she is still viewing but I have to turn the cam off and on and then resend the invite. The voice conversation feature works flawlessly the entire time though. Anybody have any ideas? I am on OS 10.5 with Yahoo IM (ver 3, Beta 4).

    Comment by guitarpunk82 — February 13, 2009 #

35. [...] Messenger for Mac mo betta: The latest beta release of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac came out this week with new features and squashes for more than three dozen bugs. They’ve fixed issues around file transfers, display images, voice, chat rooms, stealth settings, and webcam. When you report IM spam, the offender is also added to your ignore list. And you can now choose a new message style for your conversation windows, just to shake things up. More here. [...]

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36. hi- i was using the old version before and it was fine then after some software updates- i cannot sign in yahoo messenger anymore- it keeps saying”could not sign in because of unknown error” i have contacted the yahoo support who gave me some recommendations but it all didnt work- has anyone had the same experience?

    Comment by chris — February 16, 2009 #

37. Hey, i expected more features like photo sharing, because i dont like to send files to my buddies online, because their computers are slow and stuff. Additionally, maybe it would be nice if they have,… oh i just switched to kobie lite, the display pics are off. i think, but you guys double check and see. haha.. and umm.. what else.. i think thats it. good day

    eddy

    Comment by Edward — February 16, 2009 #

38. ps… when commenting on this page, there should be some reply to other comments, so people can help out techincal problems. haha

    Comment by Edward — February 16, 2009 #

39. hi guys,

    just downloaded the latest version and now i’m having a problem with the archive messages. i used to save all my chat messages and now that i’ve decided to clear them all, i couldn’t delete all my contacts’ name from the archive. i have deleted all their messages [i have to go through manual deletion, one by one], but the names remain. is there a way to delete the messages and the names at the same time?

    Comment by anna — February 17, 2009 #

40. Has anyone had any issues logging in after upgrading to Version 3 Beta 4? Since I upgraded I can’t log in at all. I’ve checked the firewall settings and everything else I can think of and it all looks good. Any suggestions will help.

    Comment by Gilbert — February 18, 2009 #

41. In a conference I cannot use my voice. that would be a nice add

    Comment by sam — February 22, 2009 #

42. where i can download yahoo masenger for mac os x ver 3.beta 4/156957

    Comment by graphiciran — February 23, 2009 #

43. Feature parity with the Windows version?

    No…?

    Move along people, nothing to see here.

    Its only been in Beta for nearly 3 years, after all.

    Comment by Ian Davies — February 26, 2009 #

44. Hi. I need to remove a user off my ignore list and it will not let me on the Mac Messenger. I did as the instructions say but when I press the “minus” button after selecting the contact it does NOTHING. This is really frustrating. Please help.

    Comment by cmb — February 26, 2009 #

45. Hi I am having problem with my yahoo voice, I get an error Yahoo can not make this call right now please try again later…I dont know whats the problem it was working very fine with the version before, I have enough credit, but I can not make any voice calls anymore. Tried doing a free test call I cant do that either. Dose anybody know the solution to this please help me.

    Comment by Raul — February 28, 2009 #

46. Hey, since I downloaded the latest version of Windows Live, my YM has suddenly slowed down terribly….and doesn’t function right at all….I keep getting hourglass while waiting to see what I typed, and most people cannot see both webcams…what’s going on?? Anyone else noticed this?? Is MS’s Windows Live degrading or slowing down YM or what???? I downloaded YM again to see if it would correct the problem, but it does not…HELP !!!!

    Comment by Leon Toille — March 1, 2009 #

47. I hope to God this edition of Mac messenger works! When are Apple based yahoo members going to get full feature parity with whatever PC edition of yahoo that is already out there, its time Yahoo closed the gap.

    Comment by Steve — March 1, 2009 #

48. That’s it I declare SHENANIGANS!! Beta 4 has already crapped out and spontaneously logged itself off TWICE in its very first 5 minutes of operation. Get real Yahoo, this is NOT the way to inspire confidence in your infrastructure from your members, nor does it really make people want to stick with your systems. Stop trying to be a second Microsoft, OK? Try to make stuff that doesn’t just run, but runs RELIABLY!

    Comment by Steve — March 1, 2009 #

49. I appreciate the upgrades and YM has become much better – finally a serviceable product.

    However, the lack of photo share for Mac is very disappointing. Please add as soon as possible.

    Thanks!

    Comment by Jeff — March 12, 2009 #

50. I just installed the Beta 4 (156957) version on my IMac OS X 10.5.6 but can’t invite other to view my webcam… the option is gray… I’m new with Mac…. can someone help me !? When I click on the icon for my webcam … I can se myself but can’t invite anyone ! And seem like even if I’m online, they see my offline (and I’m not invisible)…

    Comment by Monique — March 18, 2009 #

51. I have a mac and I just downloaded yahoo messengr 3.0 beta. For the life of me I can’t figure out how to join a chat room. I’m new to a mac so this is driving me insane! Could someone please help me.

    Thanks so much!

    Comment by joe44111 — March 22, 2009 #

52. I used it and hope there will be lo to come as it is in beta stage.

    Comment by Peter from Death Records — April 2, 2009 #

53. I have the same problem with my mac mini on yahoo. Can’t seem to let others see my cam but I can see it is working. Would really appresiate help. Thanks

    Comment by jack — April 19, 2009 #

54. as macuser, yahoo messenger is a great way to meet pc users.. it will never reach the great ichat and i really hope google make googletalk chat good for pcusers so we can meet in googletalk, cause then I can only use ichat..

    version 3 has great design, looks wonderful, and it uses little ram/cpu..really great.. After using ichat webcam, its a little dissapointing to use the cam in yahoo, but still; in yahoo a macuser can meet a pc user after all.. U did really well with the new version 3.. Transfer is quite fast too!

    What about fullscreen webcam? and not leave out functions for mac.. let mac users get the same functions as pc users..

    thanks for a great app

    Comment by vidar — April 20, 2009 #

55. hi

    how can you maximise the incoming video of someone? the green button is unavailable and there appears to be no menu to change this anywhere only to change the size of my broadcast video.

    otherwise this is great app, runs better than skype!

    thanks

    alexis

    Comment by Alexis — April 26, 2009 #

56. I have to agree about the last skype comment – Yahoo has much better sound quality.

    A huge add would be the address book integration. Right now it doesn’t even seem to bring in numbers from your Yahoo address book – which I sync with my Apple address book. Seems like a big oversight on their part.

    Comment by Spencer — May 1, 2009 #

57. I have been working with the new beta for a few days now – Voice support is still not working correctly on my MacBook Pro and Webcams barely if ever work. Looks like the Yahoo team has a little more work to do to resolve these problems.

    Comment by pete — May 2, 2009 #

58. I bought a Mac recently and downloaded Y! Messenger. The 1st thing I noticed what it wasn’t archiving my messages. I left it like that for a couple of days until today which I needed to see my previous conversations. And when I went through the Preference Pane ‘VOILA” It does save.. And I didn’t enable it..

    I don’t care how many messenger services have released, Yahoo looks much more user/environment friendly than any other IM service. GTalk looks sooo boorish though file sharing is damn good compared to Yahoo.

    In Windows:
    Everytime I share a .zip or a photo over file sharing, it creates a problem. and stops sending. I have to restart yahoo everytime it does that.. coz the file is still being used by yahoo in some way or the other though it has stopped sending..

    Anyways, The Photo Share option should be improved a bit more in Mac Version

    Comment by Ajan — May 3, 2009 #

59. So, you make a clean version for mac users, then dump windows users with advertising all over the place? In the messenger, webcam ads, you have no shame in the game?

    Is this how you treat windows users?

    Is it because Mac users simply WON’T put up with ads?

    Comment by Donald — May 3, 2009 #

60. i still can’t access my contacts in my ym, i have tried every solution laid above and nothing worked. i have been dealing with the same problem for almost 8 mos now and i thought it would be just for awhile but up until now my ym is still busted. help, i am really really annoyed seeing that spinning thingy in my ym. i know this is a free service but that is the reason why people opt to use ym because of its features and credibility to provide good service even though it is for free. i hope the yahoo will provide answers for us mac users!

    Comment by bea lacsamana — May 13, 2009 #

61. Hi there

    I am using 3.0 B4 version of yahoo messenger for mac. After applying OS X update 10.5.7 the other day, I can’t go to yahoo chat rooms anymore. I join the room but it boots me off and closes down my messenger after 30 secs. or so. I’ve tried deleting yahoo messenger plist file but no avail. Please give me some advice, what can I do.

    Comment by Davor — May 15, 2009 #

62. ditto as above.
    i keep getting dc’ed and reconnected infinitely. pls help

    Comment by pb — May 17, 2009 #

63. I have the same problem as Davor. Updated to Mac OS X 10.5.7 and when I start a chat or go into a chat room, messenger crashes. Hope you can fix this soon.

    Comment by typo55404 — May 17, 2009 #

64. Same problem for me, following my update to Mac OS X 10.5.7, chat rooms crash in about 30 seconds. This is highly annoying and please fix it asap!

    Comment by Scooter53 — May 19, 2009 #

65. After upgrading to 10.5.7 Yahoo messenger crashes after entering a public room using beta 4……hopefully there will be a fix soon.

    Comment by Bruce — May 19, 2009 #

66. I just purchased a Macbook and had to switch to Yahoo messenger for Mac. I must say I like the windows version a lot better. Call history was easier to find, preferences were more thorough and the biggest complaint–NO PHOTO SHARE. I have friends who have slow computers or just do not want to save a file of a photo I send, all they want to do is view them–PLEASE bring PHOTO SHARE to Messenger for Mac-than I will be very happy with it. I am thinking about splitting my hard drive so I have a partition of windows so I can run the windows version of Messenger–but that is not why I bought a mac. photo share is important to a lot of people-all the blogs mention it.

    Comment by Karen B — May 20, 2009 #

67. HEy, everytime i got to a yahoo chatline (any room), my yahoo crashes all the time. However, it wont crash when I DO NOT OPEN yahoo chatline.

    I tried uninstalling yahoo completely!

    I tried reinstalling my whole mac os x, and it worked for one night.

    then, today, i went to a chatline, and it messed up again. CRASH!
    this wasnt the problem sinc ei got the new mac since dec 08.

    please fix the problem:((((

    Comment by Edward — May 20, 2009 #

68. I am having the same problem as mentioned by Edward above. Yahoo Messenger crashes every single time I join in a yahoo chat room. It really annoys me.

    Please do fix this bug.

    Comment by Farid — May 22, 2009 #

69. Thanks a bunch for this new build, it works fine in my case. But when will the games be supported on the Mac messenger too? or the plugins and photo sharing?
    And the most important question: Will there be a Linux version soon? I, personally, use a Linux machine too (Kubuntu 9.04) and all i have is an old 1.0 Yahoo! Messenger for Linux, that literary sucks in terms of aspect and functionality. It has only the basic basics of the basic messaging. I know that Linux is open source and that’s the most common excuse for companies that don’t want to extend their work in that area, but there are more Linux users than Mac users, you know?.
    Thanks again Yahoo! team for this wonderful update, and above all, thanks for sparing us of those ads I know that they bring you profit, but most users simply don’t like them. And I’m looking forward for the final release, and the Linux version.

    Comment by Some1 — May 23, 2009 #

70. After I updated to the new mac OS X 10.5.7 every time I enter Yahoo Chat it just crashes and reopens, but when I don’t enter chat it’s totally fine… Sounds like this is a common problem that needs to be fixed!!! Please fix ASAP

    Comment by Andy — May 27, 2009 #

71. @Andy:

    Please see this latest blog post for more info on the issue you’re describing:

    http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/05/22/mac-update-with-some-exciting-iphone-news/

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — May 27, 2009 #

72. Every time i video chat with people on my contact list Yahoo crashes randomly…this just recently started happening…it is annoying!!! Please fix this problem. Also when i log in it gives me the error that the server is busy and could not log in but i can log in manually after that.
    Thank you, I hope this problem gets fixed soon!

    Comment by Ben — June 4, 2009 #

73. i am using mac for 3 months now. At the beginning, everything seems to be perfect. Although there’s no photo sharing, it doesn’t really matter. Just 3 weeks ago, i’ve started experiencing problems. At first i thought it was my boyfriend’s laptop whose experiencing problems not until i had a chat with my sister this morning, that’s when i realized that it was mine actually. i dunno if it was just because of the connection or my webcam. but when i tried skype, it was ok. the broadcast is slow, at the beginning the person will see me but after a minute it will be gone. i dont really like to use skype, msn and others as i am loyal only to mac as i find it very user-friendly. how can i resolve this? Ive tried upgrading my version, restart my pc but it’s still the same

    Comment by Catherine Joyce — June 6, 2009 #

74. I can’t see my friends go online and offline real time. I know since I have two accounts and I see them go online and offline in that account. I have to log off and then log in again to see them….what could be the problem???

    Comment by Baby — June 8, 2009 #

75. Glad there is an update =) would any1 know if the webccam is fixed?
    and what bugs have been fixed.

    I would also like to be able to video chat with my windows live buds.

    Comment by Arasay — June 10, 2009 #

76. I migrated to a mac 2 months back and was pretty happy to find the new beta 4 version on the yahoo website. My happiness was shortlived though since I cant make any voice out to either phones or IM friends. Yahoo customer service gave me some tips which I tried but still could not get through. So, sadly, everytime I need to call a phone, need to shift to a PC. NOT FAIR

    Comment by Ashish Dayal — June 16, 2009 #

77. Do you intend to add a “Send” button to the Mac version of IM? Personally, I like having this feature because I often forget that the “Enter” key (Mac “Return” key) sends the message each time you hit the key.

    Comment by Tom — June 30, 2009 #

78. I have yahoo 3.0 Beta 4 and it wont let me add friends… it says error… can anyone shed light on this ?

    Comment by Avi — July 4, 2009 #

79. will not log into my account.

    Comment by ivan — July 12, 2009 #

80. As of 31 July 09, I cannot send files via Yahoo Messenger using Leopard OSX 10.5.7. The send file and webcam icons are darkened and unusable. Is this an across the board Leopard issue?

    Comment by Tim — July 31, 2009 #

81. I’m trying to use Yahoo Voice Chat but the sound is high pitched. My headset is a Plantronics headset and is connected to the computer via USB? my headset works great with skype. Using the built in microphone and speakers in Yahoo Voice Chat, the sound is normal. Is this a known issue? I’m using a MAC OSX 10.4. Replies/suggestions will be appeciated. Thanks!

    Comment by Lourdes — August 1, 2009 #

82. @Tim – Is this with every contact you IM with? Keep in mind that if you’re chatting with friends who are using a version of Yahoo! Messenger that doesn’t support file transfer, then those options will be dimmed for you when you’re talking with them.

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — August 3, 2009 #

83. one of the biggest features that you wont find on the mac version is PHOTO SHARING. If Yahoo messenger Mac has this version like windows’s, then it could be the best IM for Mac. Period.

    Comment by kevin — August 8, 2009 #

84. I can’t seem to view my contacts on my YM. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and not real sure what else I can do. Its really irratating to just see that little spinning thing….. how do I fix this problem, so I can see my contacts?

    Comment by Mousey — August 13, 2009 #

85. @Mousey – Please contact customer care for help with your issue: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/mac/general_mac.html

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — August 14, 2009 #

86. when i am chatting i notice that the person’s id in the main window, list of contacts online, moves up and down, switching places with my id and the person that i am chatting with. It seems as though it happens when the person i am chatting with does not respond for awhile. maybe that person is chatting with some one else, and when chatting with others that is when our ids change position … when it happens i do not see and indication that a message is being typed … why does this happen? I am using the newest version of ym for the mac

    Comment by whitesunsetting — August 16, 2009 #

87. Audio video chat isn’t very good, too slow
    how can you do to fix it?

    Comment by davide — August 22, 2009 #

88. Yet another post about webcam issues. Quite frequently, it crashes unexpectedly; which is somewhat tolerable (for a while anyway). But now, it’s quite annoying to plug in my iPhone while using the webcam, and once I unplug it, the webcam service disconnects. By far, this is the worst yahoo messenger service I have ever experienced in my 5 years of usage. I’m sure the devs are working hard to improve this beta, but it still needs a bit of work.

    Comment by TJ — August 23, 2009 #

89. There still is no support for sending out an instant message to everyone in a group. It is something so small that I am sure could be fixed really easily. What’s the deal here?

    Comment by Chris M — August 30, 2009 #

90. I am not able to figure why it is getting disconnected millions of times. I dont know if they have resolved the bugs or added the bugs.
    Please advise me the way to overcome the issue.

    Comment by suresh rangadhamaiah — September 1, 2009 #

91. update installed.
    STILL cannot send files at all. need to log into parallels to get on the other messenger to send photos. this is getting old. so many other problems with compatibilities and macs, sometimes i think about switching back to Windows.

    Comment by doru — September 7, 2009 #

92. When will photo sharing and video sharing be available?

    Comment by Erica — September 10, 2009 #

93. I use Yahoo messenger on my mac and when I get a message via pingbox it shows up as Guest#XY as opposed to showing the nickname. When I used Yahoo messenger on a PC and signed into my account I was able to see my guests’ nicknames. Is that just a glitch on the mac or some setting that I have not been able to find? Please help, many of my customers who use the pingbox on my site assume that I know why they are once they type in their nickname.

    Thank you.

    Comment by bebebling — September 30, 2009 #

94. @bebebling – Are you requiring users to enter a nickname or is it optional? You might want to check the setting on your Pingbox to make sure a nickname is required. Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/pingbox/studio

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — October 1, 2009 #

95. Sarah, thanks for your response. Yes, the option to require a nickname is checked. Like I said, when I sign into my account on a PC I can view the nicknames of people who IM me through the pingbox. It’s on my mac, which I primarily use, that I only see a guest#.

    Any other tips?

    Comment by bebebling — October 4, 2009 #

96. @bebebling – I found out today that nicknames from Pingboxes have never been supported in the Mac version, only when you’re receiving pings in our PC client. Right now we don’t have a definitive date as to when support for this will be added to the Mac.

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — October 5, 2009 #

97. Thank you Sarah!

    Comment by bebebling — October 6, 2009 #

98. I can’t sign in at all since this update. I get alternating “unknown error” and “servers may be busy” boxes.

    Comment by Ray — October 7, 2009 #

99. anyone else having problems file sharing? i can receive files but i can never send. it always ends up saying “error”. does anyone have a fix for this?

    Comment by jay — October 20, 2009 #

100. it crashed once it’s connected..

     Comment by owen — October 29, 2009 #

101. I just installed Yahoo Messenger on an old Mac last night. I can’t even get it to open after copying the file into the apps folder. I also have Messenger installed on three Windows XP platforms and one Windows Vista platform with no problems whatsoever. What gives!?

     Comment by Charles — November 15, 2009 #

102. Hey Charles, the key words might be “old Mac.” Are you using Mac OS X 10.4 – 10.6? You might need to find an older version if you’re using an older OS.

     Comment by RenoDavid — November 20, 2009 #

103. My YM has been working pretty well but recently I haven’t been able to use a photo as my display image. The Yahoo! avatar thing shows to other users but a photo does not, either one I upload or one I take with my webcam. Anyone else having this issue?

     Also, one option I’d love to see in YM would be to have the people that are connected via SMS show up in a separate contact list. I’m more inclined to chat with people connected the regular way, but maybe that’s just me.

     Comment by RenoDavid — November 20, 2009 #

104. Since downloading the newest version I can view any off my contacts webcams regardless of them sending it or me requesting it, this never happened with the last version any ideas?

     I have a Mac 10.4.11

     Comment by herbierice — November 26, 2009 #

105. It seems to me that YM will always be faulty on a Mac. Its either Yahoo! does this by design to favor Microsoft or Apple is sabotaging YM to favor iChat. Please people, if you don’t like YM on a Mac, just don’t make it work at all.

     Comment by Gino Punsalan — December 8, 2009 #

106. Horrible. I keep getting messages where it can’ connect to the messengers servers. Although on Adium I can connect fine, although it’s still faulty (sending responds twice, etc.). Come on Yahoo, make something good for us Mac users.

     Disappointing update. And my Mac is only a couple months old, so I know it isn’t any problems with compatibility.

     Comment by Anonymous — December 9, 2009 #

107. Thanks for adding voice support, but now the webcam seems to be broken. I cannot see my friend’s webcam, loops on “starting connection.” Also my friends cannot view my webcam even i invite him/her to view my cam. Is this a known issue?

     Comment by medskie2k — December 13, 2009 #

108. “the application could not connect to the messenger server”

     How can I resolve this !? Jezz

     Comment by ynewmarc — January 18, 2010 #

109. Photo sharing?

     Comment by Fred — January 19, 2010 #

110. Can i transfer photos with the Yahoo Messenger for Mac? but not one at a time? How can I transfer more than one at once?

     Comment by Adina — January 23, 2010 #

111. Hi, I have a Mac, and I can broadcast my webcam to others, but they can’t broadcast their webcam to me. Is anyone else having this problem? How can I rectify it? Cheers

     Comment by Sam — January 26, 2010 #

112. Sam said, “Hi, I have a Mac, and I can broadcast my webcam to others, but they can’t broadcast their webcam to me. Is anyone else having this problem? How can I rectify it? Cheers”

     I am having the same problem – no solution so far even with several months of searching the web.
     Any help would be appreciated.

     Comment by shimmerei — January 30, 2010 #

113. hi i am a mac and i was wondering if it was possible for me to change the backround enviroment durring chat.

     Comment by zach — February 9, 2010 #

114. I love its simplicity, but I hate it when I can’t search people on my phone book, so I have to search it manually, which takes too much time for me. ;(

     Comment by Vie — March 3, 2010 #

115. Are there any plans to implement voice calling in the mac client in the near future?

     Comment by ps — March 12, 2010 #

116. @ps – The Mac version does have voice calling in it already.

     Sarah Bacon

     Comment by Administrator — March 15, 2010 #

117. i can’t log in! it just keeps on spinning.

     Comment by justin — March 17, 2010 #

118. could not seem to join the voice conference, I can do conference chat but it does not have the option to enable the voice.PLease HELP..thanks

     Comment by maria — March 31, 2010 #

119. @justin: been having the same problem myself. and after spinning for a while, it says that servers are busy. there has gotta be a solution to this!

     Comment by tobi — April 19, 2010 #

120. How can I import contacts from MSN to this yahoo messenger ?????? I downloaded from MSN but when I tried to import said invalid format

     Comment by fernando — May 12, 2010 #

121. I wanted to see if you had advice on how i could add the Yahoo messenger web cams to my bar Elbo Room where i have had live web cams on the beach, bar and bands. i would like to add video chat stations in the bar but i dont want customers to surf the open internet.

     is there any advice on how to add video chat for my customers at the elbo room in Fort Lauderdale florida?

     Thanks,

     Mike

     Comment by Mike for web cam advice — July 28, 2010 #

122. im a mac user and i love yahoo messenger talk on conference with my friends but i got a problem cant hear them talk or talk to them help plz……

     Comment by khmerboi82 — July 29, 2010 #

123. just installed ym for mac 3.0 but it keeps saying “Could not sign in because of an unknown error.” how can i fix this? thanks!

     Comment by kim — September 8, 2010 #

124. Yahoo! needs to quietly die off and never be remembered for it is the internet’s cancer, keeping evolution on a halt.

     Comment by Basilone — October 11, 2010 #

125. tank`s yahoo

     Comment by hamid gheshlaghi — October 11, 2010 #

126. Will a new version for mac ever be released?
     I want better plugin features, games, audibles, moving display picture support (.gif), colourful themes for the yahoo messenger and so on.

     Comment by donald duck — December 2, 2010 #

127. Yahoo for Mac is really clean and elegant, its very nice. keep up the good work and dont deviate from this and add a bunch of nonsense like you do on the Windows client.

     but for the love of god please focus on bringing us Photo Share and Voice Chat. this is the only thing it needs to be truly complete. please please please!

     Comment by coolio — February 4, 2011 #

128. C’mon Yahoo, give mac users some love!

     No photosharing, with the new windows version no video calling, no voice support in public chatrooms.

     NO update of our version in god-knows how long (I could check, but lazy).

     Show us that you want us. Show us you like us. Show us the LOVE!

     Comment by Andy — March 7, 2011 #

129. Is there anyway we can get voice in chat rooms? This is very frustrating and no one is giving an answer!

     Comment by Jen — April 14, 2011 #

130. I agree with everyone who asked for Photo Sharing. Why won’t someone from Yahoo at least acknowledge that it is needed and give us an ETA? Ridiculous.

     Comment by Phil — April 25, 2011 #

131. Is it possible to add Facebook friends chat on Yahoo Messenger Mac 3.0 Beta 4?

     Comment by Mehran — May 6, 2011 #

132. When are you guys gonna connect the yahoo messenger for mac to facebook?? i had a pc and i LOVED how facebook was on the yahoo messenger 11 beta.

     Comment by Ann — May 27, 2011 #

133. If I didn’t know people using Yahoo IM or ICQ I would never use them! The Mac versions are totally lame. I don’t think either have had new versions since 1999. How can a program remain in beta for a decade? On a PC there are backgrounds, different texts, history…

     Comment by Don — June 9, 2011 #

134. There is a message that I like yahoo.

     Comment by Buy MBT — June 25, 2011 #

135. Forget adding features, they’re now disabling them – you don’t get to see users in a room anymore, you have to go to another window to enter captcha… Yahoo, are you TRYING to send mac users away?

     Comment by andy — July 5, 2011 #

136. I too had the same issue. Couldn’t see the users in a room. But then took my mouse on the left border of the chat room window, and when the mouse pointer changed to an adjustable arrow, I dragged the border to the right! Viola! there it was, the users list. Hope this helps, and we won’t hate yahoo messenger on a mac as much

     Comment by Kris — July 9, 2011 #

137. i use a macbook pro,how do i make my make only online contacts to appear on my messenger list.

     Comment by harriss — July 13, 2011 #

138. THANKS KRIS!!!

     Comment by Rick — July 21, 2011 #

139. i am having apple macbook in yahoo messneger when i connect with the other party, my picture freezes (with the last image in the window), but I can see and hear the other person im talking with. They can also still hear me, but with a frozen picture. I hang up every few minutes and call them back until it freezes again.pls help me in this

     Comment by ramprasath — August 28, 2011 #

140. I use yahoo messenger only because of photo sharing. that feature is not in Mac. i stopped using yahoo messenger.

     Comment by PRAKASH — August 31, 2011 #

141. I use a mac too. I stopped using yahoo messenger since it stopped working properly a few months ago. I have now completely deleted my yahoo account. It’s pointless and full of spammers anyway.

     Comment by Mark — September 25, 2011 #

142. I have 2 problems with yahoo on Mac:
     first, I can not hear when I make a voice conference with many friends and they can not hear me

     second no photo share is available

     Can any one help to solve one of these problems.
     Thanks

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144. I have a mac and when I go to ‘change my display image’ and select none it is still coming up on my phone as an old picture that I thought I had deleted. How do I delete images from my display images on a mac?

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147. So Mac YIm version 3.0 has been in Beta for over three years now?

     If you have no intention of updating it (i.e. to include Photo Share), just tell the users. Otherwise you’re just yanking people around.

     This is an example of why people are abandoning Yahoo.

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