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March 31, 2003
iChat Transcript Manager 1.0a2
Well, I spent a few more hours on this little tool today, and here we go, v1.0a2 is available for your consumption:
It is pretty useable for me now. Wow. A few things I want to add to it, still, yet that will wait till the next weekend, i guess.
UPDATE 11/20/2005: We have released a new product (Chat Transcript Manager) which does everything iChat Transcript Manager used to. It uses an entirely different codebase, and is much more convenient. Try it out!   Posted by slava at March 31, 2003 08:07 AMTrackback Pings: TrackBack URL for this entry: Related:
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Thanks for working on this. Just last Saturday, I was missing a good way to go through chats. :) Posted by: Daniel Von Fange on March 31, 2003 8:35 AMI love this tool already! While the initial import was slow, the whole consept of having it indexed is really nice. Other apps need to scan through all the files every time, amd that too, takes time. Now I was simply wondering, is iChat only saving the logs when you close the chat window? Because if it wasn't, what would happen if you had windows open when you run iCTM? Would it then index a "partial" file, and never add "the rest"? Keep up the great work! Posted by: Andreas Tellefsen on March 31, 2003 12:03 PMAndreas: Nope, iChat actually saves the file only when you close the file. As for 'partial' files, if such a case ever arises, the code is ready for it, as it compares the file modification date and length as well. Posted by: slava on March 31, 2003 12:52 PMHmm, weird. I released Logorrhea on the 29th... Are you watching me, Slava? ;) Ladd: pure coincidence, I swear. =) I got tired of waiting till Loghorrea gets to parse .chat files, so I made my own, and then 15 mins after I put a1 and rant about it on my blog I notice v1.1 on MacUpdate. Heh. GMTA? ;) Posted by: slava on April 3, 2003 1:13 PMDoes this look the gray thing in this icon look like a filing cabinet? My second or third try at an icon but so far my most successful.... Posted by: Walker on April 3, 2003 2:41 PMYeah, MacUpdate was a little slow to grab that one, so I'll let you off the hook this time, but next time, you're going on PerversionTracker! ;) I noted in the other log entry that it is crashing on launch every time I open it. 1.0a1 never crashed. This one won't even stay open more than 5 seconds before it dies. I have 472 Chats in there. Plus one oddly named one saved as an RTF file. Though looking at the chat, it IS made by iChat but is named with a weird 0001 numbering scheme. I removed it from the directory and launched iCTM and it rescanned the directory and added them all excluding the one I removed. But as soon as I click the titlebar it crashes again. I don't know what the problem is. I deleted the prefs. Same thing. It crashes. Side Note: Now I remember where the RTF file came from. my internet crashed one day and I asked someone to send me the entire portion I lost while I was out. (Why they couldn't send the actual iChat file is beyond me.) Posted by: Jason Anderson on April 7, 2003 6:29 PMGreat.. Now 1.0a1 is crashing. Maybe something's up with my computer. Let me restart. Posted by: Jason Anderson on April 7, 2003 6:35 PMNope. A restart didn't work. Something has killed both versions now. I didn't really install anything lately besides the latest Silk Beta. And that's turned off right now. I don't know what could be making it die abruptly shortly after launch. :( Posted by: Jason Anderson on April 7, 2003 6:56 PMGreat little app, but I would like to see 2 things added. 1) The ability to delete transcipts Is it just me, or did Panther break iChat Transcript Manager v1.0a2? Posted by: McD on October 29, 2003 4:43 PMi noticed the same thing. it kinda works under 10.3 but crashes when clicking on one of the chat participants' names. what do you expect for an alpha? Posted by: n8 on October 30, 2003 1:35 AMi'm just trying it out for the first time. i'm running panther. first time i launched, the program spent a few minutes indexing, then crashed. now when i launch it lives for about 3 seconds then crashes. Posted by: david on March 11, 2004 9:36 AMMe too :(.... first time trying it out, all the chats load great, i can see them sitting there... and then it just closes. I'd say 3 seconds was about my standard as well... why??? Posted by: Jacqueline on October 7, 2004 9:08 PMMe five. Read about iCTM v1.0a2 in TidBITS Talk, http://db.tidbits.com/tbtalk/ (along with Logorrhea, http://spiny.com/logorrhea/, which has issues too). iChats load into the database and the app crashes -- with an offer to send a bug report to Apple, lots of good that would do. Posted by: Keith Dawson on October 21, 2004 12:56 PMThis looks exactly like the DeadAIM Log for Windows, but alas I'm having the same problems as the above posts. iCTM parses all my chat files fine but every time after that it just crashes. :( I'll keep this bookmarked and keep checking back. I'm running 10.3.7 FYI. Posted by: Dave Bailey on January 24, 2005 10:58 AMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated. |
